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NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - MMS & Advanced Issues ⬆ Archive through June 06, 2005 ⬆ |
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| Ryan A Unregistered guest |
Hi, We have a website where users can write their CVs and upload a picture which goes on their CV. Usually they upload via HTML FILE boxes, which is a problem as some of them have their pics on their mobiles and not on their computers, and most of them dont know or dont own a bluetooth dongle or any other way of transfering the files. Is there any way that we can use nowsms so that the user sends in a SMS message and a tag like this <username> and you tranfer the message to a php script on our site in a HTTP POST ? Thanks, Ryan A | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 4354 Registered: 10-2002 |
Ryan, Technically possible, but a fair amount of work. Probably the easiest way to do it would be to hook up a GSM/GPRS modem to a PC. Keep in mind that this needs to be a dedicated GSM/GPRS modem device, phones with built-in modem capabilities generally do not forward received MMS messages over the modem interface. Dedicated GSM/GPRS modem devices are devices like the Siemens MC35 Terminal, Wavecom/Multitech modems, or PC card modems like the Sierra Wireless Aircard. Then configure NowSMS to receive the MMS messages to a directory, as the file/directory based interface is the easiest to work with. (Other interfaces are described here: http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/2_way_mms_support.htm) There is an example of what the file/directory interface looks like midway in the following thread: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/2135.html The challenge is that an MMS message can technically have multiple text parts (i.e., multiple pages), so the message text goes into a separate text file. That makes it a little harder to parse out a username tag, but not that much more difficult. -bn | |||
