Receive SMS to your own webpage?

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Hello,

Exists in SA a webpage provider who can receive SMS to your own webpage?
You can send via PHP SMS from your webpage. Sending SMS is not a problem, but for receiving at your own webpage I found not much in the net.
Has here somebody experience in this area?
Thanks for any tip.:confused:
 
You can find many people in UK or USA ,who provides SMS to your own webpages , but i guess such services can't be found in SA .
 
Sending from a webpage is no problem.

Receiving it to a webpage is something else though....
 
HI, I work for a WASP and have developed many apps that receive MOs via HTTP. Its actually dead easy with PHP (actually all my apps run in PHP) you just need to ensure that give the correct feedback to the WASP supplying your service.

The best practice is to have a small script that accepts incoming HTTP requests and then pushes it into a database. You can then have a cron script process the information afterwards or you can process in real time (just make sure you don't run too long else you will get timeouts).

One thing to remember is that shortcodes are expensive and you can pay easily R2K pm for one. You can share them with others and I've seen fees as low as R500pm (anything lower than and they tend to be saturated). Also WASPA requires a reply message to each MO sent to a shortcode! Added expense.

What you can do is setup an SMS gateway on a PC you own with a standard MSISDN and off the shelf SIM and then push the messages to your site yourself (I've done this with smstools), else you can send via email and then parse on your webserver. Also you get some guys like PSMS who can send an email to your server via a tagged longcode.

So its not that WASPs in ZA do not offer the service, its just too expensive unless you have a big budget.
 
If you were to send a message through our SMS gateway, we would be able to assist in the following services: 1) through a shared number pool, every message sent gets an allocated random number, and when that message is replied to - our system will forward it to your inbox and/or website; 2) If you register/buy a shortcode, we can forward all inbound messages to any address specified by you; 3) it is also possible to register for a dedicated South African number, all inbound messages can be forwarded to any address specified by the user. For more info, check out our site: www.panaceamobile.com/
 
There is a pay as you go service for exactly this at www.send-sms-to-website.com. No registration, setup or monthly fees. It uses a shared number though so you have to reserve keywords (5 free per account). Incoming SMSs matching your keyword are sent to your callback url by HTTP POST or GET.
 
Concerned about the website posts here... I was interested in the idea but wasn't sure if the links given are safe...
 
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