Sending SMS from PHP

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How to send an SMS from a web server written in PHP

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PHP by itself has no SMS module or functions and doesn t allow you to send SMS    SMS   Short Messaging System  is a GSM technology an you need a GSM provider that will provide this service for you and may have an PHP API implementation for it   Usually people in telecom business use Asterisk to handle calls and sms programming

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Clickatell is a popular SMS gateway  It works in 200  countries  Their API offers a choice of connection options via  HTTP S  SMPP  SMTP  FTP  XML  SOAP  Any of these options can be used from php  The HTTP S method is as simple as this  http   api clickatell com http sendmsg to NUMBER amp msg Message Body Here The SMTP method consists of sending a plain-text e-mail to  sms messaging clickatell com  with the following body  user  xxxxx password  xxxxx api id  xxxxx to  448311234567 text  Meet me at home  You can also test the gateway  incoming and outgoing  for free from your browser

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You need to subscribe to a SMS gateway  There are thousands of those  try searching with google  and they are usually not free  For example this one has support for PHP

[php] Sending SMS from PHP

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