Post via Mobile Phone
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Topic: Post via Mobile Phone
Posted By: MortiOli
Subject: Post via Mobile Phone
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 9:18am
Hi all,
I was hoping someone might be able to assist, or point me in the direction of an existing script etc to use...
What I'd like to be able to do, is allow users to email (via their mobile phone), a short 'news update'. I'd then like to be able to pull these emails from my account, and insert into a database - then show them on my website.
Basically, I'd like to achieve what Facebook do, where people can update their statuses via mobile phone. Obviously I wouldn't have a text message number for people to use, but they'd email an address instead.
Anyone have any ideas? It could be either in ASP or PHP - I assume PHP would be better, due to setting up a CRON job to pull the emails from an account.
On top of this, if possible, I'd like it to know who sent the message - ie, the database would have a list of names and numbers, so it can match them up.
Any help would be great!
Cheers!
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Posted By: socialanimal
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 12:15pm
I've done something similar to this in classic ASP. If you have access to a Microsoft Exchange email account have the emails sent to this account, then you can use WEBDAV to pull emails out and store information from them in a database. You can them move the emails to a different folder to acknowledge them as being dealt with and when you're script runs to check emails in the folder you're not going back through email that have already been actioned which makes the whole thing run a lot quicker.
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