sms2email-Liveticker

 

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The idea

You can find several SMS livetickers in the internet. After a registration you can use them for free, if you allow the insertion of advertising banners. You send an SMS message from a mobile phone to e specific number and then your ticker refreshes with the content of the SMS message.

 

Unfortunately this hasn't worked to my complete satisfaction. So I thought out my own solution. You just need a mobile phone, a server with PHP installed (including the IMAP library) and a POP3 mailbox especially for this purpose.

 

 

How it works

If you want to update the liveticker, just send an SMS message as email to the installed email address. In Germany it is possible in every wireless network to send a short message as email. I don't know how it works in other countries. Please ask your mobile phone provider, how it works in your network.

 

Every time the PHP script is called it checks the POP3 mailbox and lists all emails in a table. Date, time and body of the messages are listed (neither sender nor subject). The ticker refreshes in a customizable interval.

 

In a configuration file you have to declare the email addresses, from which the liveticker may be updated. Additionally it is possible to declare a password that has to be the first word of every email. Furthermore you can define an end word, so every text after this endword is cut and not visible in the ticker.

 

 

The administration

On an admin page you can see even the senders and complete bodies of the emails. You can delete messages as well.

 

 

Download

  Download all files in one zip file (newest version from 10.02.2005). [Downloads: 856]

 

 

Test-Liveticker

If you want to see how it works you can test it.

 

Or you can have a look at sites that use the ticker. If you use the ticker on your site, just send me an email (to: markus(at)fraikin.net), and I will add a link to your page:

 

 

 

Support
... and information about bug fixes you can find in the forum (only German, but you can ask questions in English, too).
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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