{"id":26824,"date":"2016-12-10T03:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=26824"},"modified":"2016-12-09T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T09:05:23","slug":"sms-via-email-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/sms-via-email-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"SMS via Email Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/email_to_sms.html.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"SMS via Email Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/email_to_sms.jpg\" title=\"SMS via Email Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SMS via Email Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Do you have access to email and are wanting to contact somebody that &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has no email, but has a mobile number &#8230; or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>you only know their mobile number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>? &#8230; then an Email to SMS (<a target=_blank title='SMS information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Short_Message_Service'>short message service<\/a> or text message) service could be the go to open the communication channels here.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find when you start researching this functionality <a target=_blank title='Email to SMS' href='https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/search?q=Email+to+SMS&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-b-ab&#038;gfe_rd=cr&#038;ei=PwJKWPCuCLDr8Ae0o4LgBQ'>there are a lot of service providers<\/a> for this type of service, ranging from the Free Services to Premium Services for Personal Use or Business Service usage, as exemplified from a job of the past we had maintaining a Pet Reminder service that worked via PHP and MySql and crontab and automated SMS that you can get a feel for from this <a target=_blank title='Pets Novartis Pet Reminders' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/PetsNovartis.tiff'>website screenshot<\/a> from times past.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we wanted to combine into a web application the functionality of one of those Free Email to SMS service providers, in our case for Australian mobile phones, run by <a target=_blank title='https:\/\/www.itcompany.com.au\/free-email-to-sms.html' href='https:\/\/www.itcompany.com.au\/free-email-to-sms.html'>The IT Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This simple to use service involved emailing to a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n04xxxxxxxx@sms.itcompany.com.au<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; email address where you substitute &#8220;04xxxxxxxx&#8221; above with what your Australian mobile number is, and register yourself with <a target=_blank title='https:\/\/www.itcompany.com.au\/free-email-to-sms.html' href='https:\/\/www.itcompany.com.au\/free-email-to-sms.html'>The IT Company<\/a> for this free service (up to 10 sms per day per mobile number).  Simple, huh?!  And so this is very easy to integrate into a web application we&#8217;ve written called <a target=_blank title='email_to_sms.html' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/email_to_sms.html_GETME'>email_to_sms.html<\/a> with this <a target=_blank title='Click picture' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/email_to_sms.html'>live run<\/a> link, that functions in name only (it would be your job to register your requirements with a service of interest, and amend this software as necessary) that performs the task through either &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an email client program supervises via an HTML <i>a<\/i> link <i>mailto:<\/i> URL &#8230; or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>a PHP <i>mail<\/i> arrangement send the SMS via email in an unsupervised manner via the use of this PHP <a target=_blank title='email_to_sms.php' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/email_to_sms.php_GETME'>email_to_sms.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d26824' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d26824\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/sms\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d26824' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have access to email and are wanting to contact somebody that &#8230; has no email, but has a mobile number &#8230; or &#8230; you only know their mobile number ? &#8230; then an Email to SMS (short message &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/sms-via-email-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,37],"tags":[1709,380,576,795,799,932,997,2031,1159,2075,1319],"class_list":["post-26824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-uncategorised","category-tutorials","tag-communication","tag-email","tag-html","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-phone","tag-php","tag-programming","tag-service","tag-sms","tag-text-message","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26824"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26824\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}