Paul Hartland
paul.hartland at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 14 00:57:35 CST 2014
Yeah was afraid of that thank you, will have to look into the additional costs then, but could still be more cost effective than some other companies offering a similar service for clients. Paul On 14 February 2014 06:08, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote: > On 2014-02-13 10:55 PM, Paul Hartland wrote: > >> To all, >> >> I am working on a little project, which if works has potential to become >> quite big. This however involves a learning curve for me in developing >> applications for mobile phones but I am sure I can get to grips with this. >> The way I see this working is that the user will enter a code and >> message >> on the phone application (or even just send it as an SMS which saves me >> the >> mobile application piece) and press send and this message will be stored >> in >> a MS Access or SQL Database, the part I can't see is how the message will >> get from the phone application into the database, I can't seem to see a >> way >> of avoiding a third party software. I envisaged the application to send >> the message as an SMS and appear in an email, where my server side >> application would scan for new emails, then if found would write some of >> the contents to the database. >> >> Is this possible to achieve without a third party software solution, >> bearing in mind that the phones sending the SMS could have a variety of >> providers as in O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile etc etc. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help on this. >> > > Once you have an SMS Gateway, you can retrieve messages with PHP and save > them to a MySQL DB (for example) with standard mysqli API calls. AFAIK > there's no avoiding the need for the gateway. > > PB > > ---- > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Paul Hartland paul.hartland at googlemail.com