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NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - SMS Issues ⬆ Archive through September 15, 2003 ⬆ |
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| geeda |
Could someone brief me on how to develope a system of request info from server via SMS i.e student check exam result via SMS.Give some explaination on the architecture behind it and type of script that are needed.}} | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support |
I can give you a brief overview of how you would do this with NowSMS... First, you need to have an SMSC connection that allows you to receive SMS messages. The easiest way to setup such a connection is with a GSM modem (in many cases, this can be a GSM phone with a serial or USB cable that allows the phone to be used as a modem). You define the SMSC or modem connection on the "SMSC" page of the NowSMS configuration dialog by selecting "Add". The "2-way" page of the configuration dialog tells NowSMS what to do when it receives an SMS message (http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/2_way_sms_support.htm). And what most people do is configure NowSMS to call an HTTP script (which runs on another web server not under the direct control of NowSMS) ... NowSMS passes information about the text of the received message, and the sender phone number to the HTTP script. The HTTP script can then either respond directly with a text response to send back to the sender ... or it can generate a new HTTP request back to the NowSMS gateway if it wants to send a message back. -bn | |||
