SMS through website

[feliks_rosenber]

Sound like a great idea but I was wondering, how will the phone companies charge you ?

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by feliks_rosenber

Sound like a great idea but I was wondering, how will the phone companies charge you ?

They won't charge you; they'll charge whoever receives the text message.

[Racer26]

If you want to embed it into your website, you should just write a mailing list script, and have subscribers provide their mobile phone's email. Also, the character limit is more like 140, for SMS.

[Bryan Herbst]

As there are ways of finding the service provider for phone numbers online, then you could probably find a way to get a phone number list, then run it through a service provider finding script, then tack on the appropriate domain to the number, and send a message to the completed list.

You could also have a registration script that automatically converts the number into an email address when the user is first added.

These two options would require some knowledge of PHP, so if you don't know how to use PHP, you might run into some trouble. I've never looked into any service provider-finding scripts before, so I'm afraid I can't help you there.

After a bit of googling...
Drupal (www.drupal.org) is capable of sending text messages to user lists through a message add-on (found here). You could check into that and see how that works.

Good luck!!