After a litle bit of digging i have partially solved my own problem but i suspect others may appreciate this.
My website
http://www.jnmbc.co.uk allows users to upload images. When they submit an image, I recieve an email notification so that i can examine the image and caption before posting it to the gallery.
The problem is that if I am away from my email it could be a couple of days before i realise an image upload request has been made so my solution is to send an SMS text alert to my mobile.
I spoke to my mobile network provider (t-mobile) and they implimented the Free of Charge service for me.
Phone your network supplier and ask them to set up the service for you. It may take an hour or two to become active, mine took ten minutes.
You can test this easily by sending an email to your own phone as an SMS
If you are on t-mobile then send an email to
yourmobilenumber@t-mobile.uk.net
Although this method works directly from any email client, i am still testing it from within my website but a little bit unsure about headers etc.
this is the sendsms.php that processes it
<?php
//If we are here then the image was uploaded to the holding area so send the SMS alert
$to = "0123456789@t-mobile.uk.net";
$subject = "Request to add image to gallery";
$message = "Login to admin area and check the picture";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$eMail . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: '.$eMail;
if(mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers))
{
echo "<p><strong>Thankyou! SMS sent</strong></p>";
} else {
echo "<p><strong>SMS failed! Sorry, your sms could not be sent</strong></p>";
}
?>
Hope this helps the community.
