SMS messages out....

[cheyennemtnman]

To a cell number stored in table...anyone tried this?

 

[troester]

There's a SMS form plugin.

 

[Bauer]

Another, at fabrikar.com "you learn something new every day".

 

[cheyennemtnman]

There's a SMS form plugin.

So this plugin can be initiated server side? Say after a change by the administrator in the database? or is the SMS only initiated by completion of a form?

 

[cheesegrits]

Just FYI, I added SMS as an option to the form mail plugin.

As for "server side", what actions would you want to trigger on?

Hugh

 

[cheyennemtnman]

Well I am thinking more from the admin of the site to trigger a SMS send... Admin would look at a table with records and select data fields to send to the sms recipient or select records to send is a mini list .... like three telephone numbers and names... in a sms to the intended recipient

 

[cheesegrits]

There's an SMS option in the list email plugin.

-- hugh

 

[cheyennemtnman]

Is Twilio SMS gateway a free message send ?

 

[cheesegrits]

No.

But writing adaptors for the SMS handling in Fabrik is simple, for most SMS providers. So if you have a free service you want to use, you can probably easily adapt one if the existing ones for it.

 

[cheyennemtnman]

Where do you find the existing ones? Also can you use cURL within Joomla?
I was trying to use textbelt gateway (http://textbelt.com/) with a post using cURL with no luck...

 

[cheesegrits]

./components/com_fabrik/sms_gateways

Yes, the standard way to do SMS is with CURL. For example, the kapow.php gateway, which uses our SMS helper function, FabrikSMS::doRequest(), which uses CURL.

Some, like twilio.php, use a a vendor specific API.

-- hugh