OT:ish SMS script for web site?

Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk

Long shot... but...
Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an e-commerce
website for sending SMS text messages to customer via something like one of the
Betamax clones?

Just an idea for our new site that perhaps customers might like to receive
updates or password reminders via their mobile rather than e-mail if they are
out and about rather than in front of a desk all day long.

Cheers
Pete
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Tim

Pet - wrote:
> Long shot... but...
> Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an
> e-commerce website for sending SMS text messages to customer via
> something like one of the Betamax clones?




or


Which has more program examples.


Of course, this is for sending messages through AQL, which costs money.
They do work really well though.


Tim

Theo Markettos

Pet - <> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any script that can be integrated with say an
> e-commerce website for sending SMS text messages to customer via something
> like one of the Betamax clones?

Shell script 'fincheck':


There seem to be several versions, of which the one I used is from here:

They also has a PHP version which I haven't tried.

I tried fincheck with SMSListo.com. It works some of the time, but
sometimes SMSListo comes back with a 'session timeout' page even though it's
just logged me in. You can tell because sending an SMS takes about 5-10
seconds, while a failure comes back straightaway. I don't quite know what's
happening - perhaps sometimes the web requests are too quick for the
website? I've put some debug in my copy but haven't had time to get to the
bottom of it. It's quite a simple script, so shouldn't be too hard to fix.

Maybe others can try it on other Finarea/Betamax sites and see how well it
works?

Theo

Theo Markettos

Theo Markettos <theom+.uk> wrote:
> I tried fincheck with SMSListo.com. It works some of the time, but
> sometimes SMSListo comes back with a 'session timeout' page even though it's
> just logged me in. You can tell because sending an SMS takes about 5-10
> seconds, while a failure comes back straightaway. I don't quite know what's
> happening - perhaps sometimes the web requests are too quick for the
> website? I've put some debug in my copy but haven't had time to get to the
> bottom of it. It's quite a simple script, so shouldn't be too hard to fix.

I've fixed that bug and sent the patches upstream (along with some other
improvements). There's now a beta version (filename fincheck.beta) on the
site which hopefully should be released as the main version in a few days.

Theo