Initial Research Outline

After doing some initial research for the SMS Framework project, I've come up with the following outline. I'll be having a conference call with my project mentors on Tuesday. I'd like to invite the community to share their input about additional gateways to extend and functionality to implement.

• Existing Modules
  • BlogSMS http://drupal.org/project/blogsms
    Small module to accept blog entries via HTTP POST from AQL's SMS to HTML gateway.
    • Version: 4.7.x-1.x-dev
    • Last Updated: 2006-Nov-13
  • SMS Email http://drupal.org/project/smsemail
    This module is an API module for sending SMS messages via email gateways. Only supports email gateways. From README: "Usually, sending SMS messages through email gateways are not guaranteed or sending delay may be valuable or even huge."
    • Version: 5.x.1.x-dev
    • Last Updated: 2007-Feb-23
  • SMS Gateway http://drupal.org/project/smsgateway
    This module adds SMS (Short Message Service) texting capabilities to Drupal allowing the sending of messages to and the reception of messages from mobile phones.
    • Version: 5.x-1.0
    • Last Updated: 2007-Jan-30
    • Currently supports Clickatell
• Gateways
  • Clickatell http://www.clickatell.com/
    • HTTP Implemention
      • SMS Gateway implementation
        Something already exists in smsgateway. Use that for reference.
      • Clickatell's PHP Script www.clickatell.com—php.php http://www.clickatell.com/solutions/developers/php.php
        Implements HTTP connectivity to access API.
  • Mobile Accord http://www.mobileaccord.com/
  • Other providers?
• Integration into Drupal core and existing modules
  • Subscriptions Module http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions
    • Content/taxonomy change notification
  • Event Moduledrupal.org—subscriptions http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions
    • Event reminders
  • CCK http://drupal.org/project/cck
• Other possible features
  • Mass announcements to all/groups of users
  • Double opt-in
    System will send a confirmation code to a user's mobile phone. The user will enter that code into the Drupal site to confirm the ownership of that mobile number.