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| bert schreuders Unregistered guest |
Could you tell me is Now SMS/MMS is the right product i'm looking for? We want to use it to receive SMS's. Several Radio stations (each have unique number) will broadcast questions and we will filter the answers etc. I guess this is a known concept... We will have a SMPP connection to the SMSC. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 2153 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Bert, It could be right for you ... there is a lot of flexibility available within NowSMS. And NowSMS can simplify a lot of this process ... such as the SMPP connectivity (in the future you can add additional SMSC connections if needed) and the processing of received messages. Basically when a message is received, NowSMS parses the message, and then can make an HTTP request to call a script that you write for processing the message. We pass information like the sender and recipient phone numbers, and the text of the message to the script. Your script can process that message, and if you want, easily send a reply as a response back from the HTTP script. More info on 2-way SMS: http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/2_way_sms_support.htm http://www.nowsms.com/support/bulletins/tb-nowsms-003.htm In current versions of NowSMS, you can only trigger different HTTP scripts based upon the first word of text in the received SMS message. So in your setup, you would need to have one script that branched with different logic based upon the recipient phone number, so that you could process the messages for different radio stations. We've improved that process with the version that is currently in beta, v5.50. In v5.50, the "2-way" command table has an additional field for the recipient phone number, so that you can define different scripts for processing messages based upon this recipient phone number. That makes it much easier to manage this type of processing when you are supporting a number of different systems. There's a 60-day evaluation version of NowSMS available for download from the web site, so feel free to give it a try: http://www.nowsms.com/downloads/smsmmsgateway.htm You can also configure it to work with a GSM modem (many phones have inbuilt modem capability with the appropriate cable or bluetooth connection) ... and do some testing initially on that platform if you do not have the SMPP connection available to you yet. Oh, and if you want to give the v5.50 beta release a try, info on v5.50 is available at the following links: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/53/3291.html http://www.nowsms.com/newsletter -bn | |||
