Re: Idea for a program
- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:24:44 +0300
Hi Jamal,
If you want to send SMS and MMS messages, you could use perl.
Search for sms with search.cpan.org and you wil find more than 100 perl
modules that could help you to do what you want.
Some of those perl modules just use some web sites that send the messages,
but it is recommended to use those modules instead of the sites directly.
Other modules could be used for sending messages more reliably, by directly
contacting a server that sends SMS messages, a server which contacts a
mobile phone operator, based on a contract or something like that, exactly
what those public web sites that allow sending SMS do.
The syntax used by some of those perl modules is very simple, but some of
them might not work because some sites have more and more restrictions that
don't allow sending an SMS.
I also intended to make such a program a few years ago, but after I've seen
that there is no reliable way to make a program work for more years for sure
(for free), I abandoned that idea.
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: Idea for a program
I would like to develop a simple program that presents a dialog with an
edit box for a phone number and another for a message (as well as others
if needed), which then sends the text message to the (mobile) phone. Does
anyone know of a free API to do this? If you know of a free, accessible
program that already does this, which is efficient to use, than the need
may already be met. I do know of a web site that enables this freely via
a form,
http://TextAway.com
Is it possible to automate the filling out of the form via a script? I do
not know enough about how such web scripting is done, and whether there
are security barriers that sites use to prevent this.
This would be an open source project, so if anyone can help me get started
in any language, it could be a collaboration.
Jamal
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