Text Message on PM

Text Message on PM
By Antonbomb22(AN-net; Anthony Scudese)

Description:
This hack will allow you and your members to receive a text message on their cell phone when they receive a new private message on your forums! They can setup their cell phone number and cell phone provider via the edit email & password page in UserCp and check the option for receiving the text message on the edit options page. This further allows you and your memebers to take your site anywhere you go!

Disclaimer:
I Anthony Scudese am not responsible for the misuse, abuse, or harmful use of this code. I Anthony Scudese am also not responsible for charges due to reading of text messages or sending of text messages. I am also not responsible for spamming, advertising, or rapid text message sending to any one members' or customers' inbox. I am also not responsible for legal action taken by any of the used cell phone providers or their affiliates(you will not be sued as long as no complaints are filed and the system is not abused!). This disclaimer is only to make me(Anthony Scudese) not legally responsible or held accountable due to someone abusing or misusing this code. You here by agree to these terms by installing and or using this modification/hack.

Compatiable vBulletin Versions:
3.0.x(Tested on vBulletin 3.0.3)

Supported Regions:
-USA

Supported Cell Phone Providers:

• Verizon Wireless(Tested)
• Cingular Wireless(Not Yet Tested)
• AT&T Wireless(Not Yet Tested)
• Alltel(Not Yet Tested)
• Nextel(Not Yet Tested)
• Virgin Mobile(Tested)
• T-Mobile(Not Yet Tested)
• Sprint PCS(Tested)

Important Notes:
-It is urged for webmasters never to include $bbuserinfo[cellnum] in any templates or any part of their site as it will leak the cell phone number of the logged in user to the person viewing the page thus releasing very private information.
-It may take several minutes for a text message to arrive at a cell phone and the speed depends on your server and the cell phone provider, so please be patient.
-Due to the merging of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless I am not sure as of the moment where their online text messaging will go but I will of course keep all people updated.
-Spamming or high volume text messaging of people's inboxes is prohibited and may be punishble by law if committed.
-DONT FORGET TO TURN THE OPTION ON IN THE EDIT OPTIONS PAGE IN UsercCp

Support Policy:
I have the right to deny support to any one at any time for any reason, I however will do my best as always to assist and help others who use my modifications/hacks.

Where Do You Get Support?:
-AIM: Antonbomb22
-Email: antonbomb22@animationation.net
-Official Text Message on PM Support Forum
-this thread

Expansion:
-If you would like to contribute your testing of cell providers to this on going project please do so by emailing, pming, or instant messaging me.
-If your provider is not listed above please contact them and ask if an email to text message capability comes with your phone.If it does contact me via email, pm, or AIM and I will be glad to update our growing supported list of providers.
-If your region is not yet supported and a provider in your region enables email to text message capabilites please then contact me via email, pm, or AIM and I will add the provider and region to the supported region and cell phone provider list.

Please click install and enjoy

Updates/Fixes:
Updates:

• Virgin Mobile USA compatiability Confirmed!
• Sprint PCS compatability Confirmed!

Fixes:

• For those experiencing MySql problems when running the first 2 queries required click here

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by AN-net

I am still looking for people interested to test this feature

how do I test with Canadian providers?

[Blam Forumz]

Hi, any chance you'll be working on a UK version of this?

[hugh_]

What about using paid messaging providers such as MBLOX? Text messaging's a great way to add value to a site and could represent a good revenue stream and I'd be more than happy to pay for proper coverage although it might also require a credits system using paid subscriptions...

Also could this hack also be used with events reminders (and possibly even distribution lists)? I have a busy calendar section for which this hack would be very useful...

Finally I'm unclear as to the level of support this hack has in the europe at present (none?!)?

Thanks...

hugh

[Thug]

hi

im inthe uk and i require 02,t mobile,vodafone and orange all uk networks to be added
please try sort it,ive installed the hack but is only for USA
p.s needs to be 11numbers for our mobiles

[Kohhal]

Originally Posted by AN-net

It looks as Vodafone Ireland(not sure about the entire network yet) does not support the service required for this hack...

Pity that, sounds like a great hack that I could have used, I'll keep an eye on this and if you get some European operators up and running it might be something I can use.

[TundraSoul]

Never mind, no problem. I went and upgrade to 3.0.7.

Q. If you edit your phone number, shouldn't you first see it there in the Cell Phone Number line?

Originally Posted by AN-net

ill try to look into this

[TundraSoul]

Tested with Cingular, and it worked perfectly.

Installed.

[el diablo]

Tested on Cingular as well - works ALMOST perfect. I had AT&T and they switched to Cingular - on the AT&T phone i never received a message but on the new Cingular (purchased from Cingular store) it works perfect.

[FD929]

AT&T has since merged with Cingular and both now use @mmode.com

Search private.php for @mobile.att.net and @mobile.mycingular.net and replace both with mmode.com

Awesome hack dude.

[T3MEDIA]

sytax is wrong.
if you have a prefix use this.... (prefix) is your prefix here

INSERT INTO (prefix)phrase (`languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES (0, 'pmreceived_celltxt', '$touserinfo[username], You have received a new private message at $vboptions[bbtitle] from $bbuserinfo[username].', 3000);

INSERT INTO (prefix)phrase (`languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES (0, 'pmreceived_celltxt', 'New Priv Msg at $vboptions[bbtitle]!', 4000);

INSERT INTO (prefix)phrase (`languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES (0, 'badcellnum', 'You have provided an invalid cell phone number. Please provide a United States of America cell phone number including area code and a seven digit number.', 1000);

INSERT INTO (prefix)phrase (`languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES (0, 'cellnummismatch', 'Your cell phone number provided does not match the confirmation cell phone number you provided, please go back and correctly fill in these fields.', 1000);

INSERT INTO (prefix)phrase (`languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES (0, 'cellnumtaken', 'The cell phone number you provided is already in use. If  this is your cell phone number please contact your board''s administrator.', 1000);

INSERT INTO (prefix)phrase (`languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES (0, 'invalidcellprovider',  'The cell phone provider you have provided does not exist or is not yet supported. Please contact your board''s administrator about this.', 1000);