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Sending text messages (SMS) and voice communications
February 23, 2010, 03:25:22 pm
I am trying to plan the best approach to allow text messaging ( SMS ) from CiviCRM.  My current plan is to implement the hook function:  hook_civicrm_searchTasks( ) so there is another action in the "Actions" menu.

I am looking at the APIs of 2 different SMS providers:
EZTexting  ( http://www.eztexting.com )
Twilio ( http://www.twilio.com )

Twilio looks promising in that they also allow PHP ( and other languages) to make voice calls. I think that would be a great tool within CiviCRM. Especially for events that are canceled/rescheduled due to snow, etc.

Both offer pay-per-message pricing as well as bulk pricing.


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Re: Sending text messages (SMS) and voice communications
February 23, 2010, 03:38:16 pm
This is a link to a simple code sample of a Twilio call made from a PHP script:
http://mikehillyer.com/reviews/twilio-rolling-my-wifes-eyes-in-31-lines-of-php/
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Re: Sending text messages (SMS) and voice communications
February 23, 2010, 04:10:41 pm

might also want to check:

http://madeout.blogspot.com/2009/06/sending-tokenized-sms-with-drupal-to.html

might be easier to piggyback on drupal's sms framework to begin with

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Re: Sending text messages (SMS) and voice communications
February 23, 2010, 04:21:47 pm
That approach looks interesting, but I need this to work with Joomla too. 
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Re: Sending text messages (SMS) and voice communications
February 23, 2010, 04:31:17 pm

might want to send a PM to andrew perry (andrew). He has some code that does SMS stuff via clickatell (the protocol can be abstracted away quite easily)

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