SMS Capabilities (Text Messaging to Cell Phone from Forums)
 

I am discontinuing this modification while I redesign it. :) If you need support or want information, email me at rob@robwoelich.com.

Wow. Any chance of getting this working for Australia? :D

I've actually looked into it. The bad news is that the cell phone companies there don't have the same deal with the email addresses that will send a text to your phone. Any company can be added that has the email to text type system.

Maybe in the future, though!

Edit: Now is the future! :p Australia is supported. Remember the limits on which companies can be supported, which amounts to those who have the email-to-text services.

I do not see any change

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That style is significantly different from the default one, and it's impossible to be able to search and replace in every single style code. Sorry :( you'd have to do the template changes manually. There are instructions in the readme.

Notice on the find and replace in the readme, what you're trying to find may vary slightly, especially if you're using a different style. You can see the general structure of your code, though, and copy it accordingly.

Wil this work for users in Canada,USA,UK and India?!

I've updated the modification with a list of supported companies. Like I've mentioned, this can only work with companies that offer a public email address where people can email someone and have it sent as a text message. This seems to only be a common thing in the US. I apologize for lack of support for other areas, but that's beyond my control. :p

wooooow man ..... a great mod after long time :)

but right now its kinda useless to me... can you add
ROGERS and FIDO (( Canada ))

and some asian companies
like
Telenor
Mobilink
Jazz etc etc

That depends on if they have the said "texting emails". For example, with Alltel, you can send an email to xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com (xxx being the phone number) and Alltel turns that into a text message to that phone number. If those companies have an email or a system like that, then yeah, I could. :)

If anybody has companies which have a texting email like that which I don't have added, let me know what they are, and what the emails are and I'll add them. ;)

Edit: I found Rogers, and they do have such an address. I'll look into the others you listed and try to update them later today. :)

so u mean this is not WEB2SMS thingy .... like u can not just type the number and send text messg ?

Not necesscarily. This lets a user specify their cell phone number in their user options just like their email address, and receive alerts and messages that way.

wow g8

Rob,

Would it be possible to user the "from" address in the email send the users email address on file? That way a type of reply could be made?

For a more complicated system, it would be nice to integrate maybe SMTP into the script and have it receive SMS email replies to maybe user@domain.com ... just an idea.

Thanks!
Jonathan

Product Installed, all template edits were made during installation and verified. Still not showing up on the UserCP menu.

Any ideas?

Installed. Not showing on the User CP. I use the default version of vBull. Any ideas? Nice idea...I love it!

There's a note in the readme about it, but for some reason when the email hits the cell phone company, it disregards any headers like "From" or "Reply To". In my case, it always shows my default email for my hosting account. I haven't been able to get it to change.

This is something that I'd like to look into for the future, though. I've thought about managing a system for replies, and maybe someday that will be possible. :)

Hmm, weird. Did you get any errors when you imported the product?

PM me and I'll try to help you out with it.

its working perfectly for me

Weird. It seems there's some issue with 3.7.0 perhaps? I've updated compatibility to be 3.7.1 because that's the only thing I can think of. My test forums were 3.7.1 and I noticed that the people who can't get it to work seem to be using 3.7.0.

Maybe I'll download 3.7.0 again and find out what I need to do to get it working on that. :(

is using 3.7.0. Help when you can?

I'll work on 3.7.0 compatibility as soon as I can. I'll try to get it done tonight and I'll let you know when it's finished. :)

well my script has like 50 companies around the world :( everything is in the SQL DB

www.iogames.com/sms/

Nope, I'm not making promotion :p

Nice... mind sharing the list of emails? :p

1 condition!!!

let's create a dB of them! need more, more countries :(

I'd be down to help with that. I've been spending more time on the actual integration with the parts of the forum than compiling a lot of companies and countries, but that would be useful too.

I'll PM you. :)

Installed and working.

It would be great if you could reply to the messages.

How about companies in the UK?

O2
Vodafone
Orange
3
Virgin?

I'm going to work with iogames to use his list of companies. That should cover about everything. :p And yes, it would be nice to be able to reply. Something for the future...

Can we set user group permissions for this? If not, please add that feature.

Feature Request:
- user group permission
- allow only buddy/friends to send txt
- minimum number of member post to allow txt send (if other options not set, such as "buddy only" permission)

Fantastic Mod, only problem is that it's not showing up at all in the user CP. I checked USERCP_SHELL and the code was automatically added correctly. Any ideas ? I'm using 3.7.1 Patch Level 2

This doesn't let others see your cellphone number does it? It won't make it publicly available to anyone? Like the email option?

Please add "Bell Canada" and some major and big cell companies in India!

I 2nd that !:):up:

Can you please list India?
Companies should be listed are :-

1. Airtel
2. BSNL
3. Idea
4. Vodafone
5. Virgin
6. Reliance
7. Tata Indicom
8. Aircel

Another good addition to this would be to have the option in the postbit drop down. ;)

Can you add turkcell (Turkey) also?

this mod could use an address book, also let me ask u say i list my celll phone number, can anyone see the numbers? makes me wonder what if like telemarketers or ppl i dont want calling me got the, id rather to users it always shows as **** even in their address book, in the access book it shouldjust be my forums user name

just to keep things safer

It works the same as the email option where they can't see they email address they are sending to.

Looks great, seems to have much potential on my forums. thanks.

Installed and working, thanks for this! JPT

Many thanks for this improvement in intranet communication.

I hope that updates about new carriers shall be posted by members soon. I'll obviously add mine here when any are found.

i need some italian companies:

1. TIM
2. Vodafone
3. Wind
4. 3 (tre)

it's possible?