Processing recieved MMS to send SMS?

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David Herzog
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Username: Davidherzog

Post Number: 1
Registered: 01-2007
Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 05:18 pm:   

I want to send a response SMS, when I recieve a MMS. Did I understand right that there is no simple function included in NowSMS to process MMS in such a way?
What is the simplest way to do this? I've had the idea to search the sender's phone number with PHP in the .hdr file and send the SMS by calling the URL. Should that be possible?
Malcolm - Now Support
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Username: Malcolm

Post Number: 138
Registered: 12-2006
Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 10:31 pm:   

Hi David,

There is a recent update that includes a feature where received MMS messages can be posted to a PHP script. This is described in the following thread:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/18694.html

However, when you use this functionality, all it does is post the content of the MMS message to the PHP script. It does not provide automated support for sending an SMS reply ... so you would need to initiate a separate connection to NowSMS to trigger an SMS reply, the same as you would if you were processing the MMS-IN files directly.

If you are processing the MMS-IN files directly, then searching for the sender's phone number in the .HDR file is what I would recommend.

As for how to send back the SMS reply, since you're working in PHP, you could use the sendsms.php script shown in the following thread: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/867.html

Or, I suppose you could use the command line interface described at http://www.nowsms.com/support/bulletins/tb-nowsms-008.htm.

One other suggestion ... if you are processing the MMS-IN files directly, you can configure NowSMS to call an EXE every time an MMS is received (so that you don't have to scan). This is described in the following thread: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/11121.html

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Malcolm
Now Wireless Support