SMS Update and Screencast
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diggersf@drupal.org - Wed, 2007-08-01 19:48
I've posted an update on the SMS Framework project and a screencast on the Development Seed blog. It introduces some of the new functionality that I've implemented using the API.
Neat - Great work!
Small suggestion on modifying the use case you demonstrated.
The site admin, or content author is rarely going to be able to predict what portion of text a user would like to send via sms. It would be great to allow a user to highlight the text they wanted, and provide them with a method to send that.
Looks great -- Some UI suggestions
Looks great.
The screencast helps immensely. :)
I have some UI suggestions and other feedback.
Would be nice to have a drop-down of users rather than having to enter in their phone number
** You'd need a way for users to enter their phone numbers
** You'd need a way for users to enable/disable receiving SMS messages
** You'd need a way to control which users they're able to receive messages from.
What about the 160-character limit on SMS messages? How is this displayed when using an inline [sms][/sms] tag?
** Or are you allowing 20 characters for a username and limiting it to 140 characters?
Who does the text message say it is from? The website or the specific user?
I think sending an SMS message requires a simpler interface where there is a much smaller text box w/o the need to include inline tags. It'd be better to have a CCK node type that has a simpler and smaller text box, and also includes a counter that keeps track of how many characters have been used. A "Characters Remaining Countdown" jQuery code snippet can be found as inline javascript on this page: http://reindel.com/five_javascript_tricks_jquery/ (w/ no license specified)
Finally, I imagine that you've avoided some of this CCK functionality because it makes it more complex to initially set up the module and get it running. Maybe take a look to see how feasible it is to programatically generate CCK types now after reading this thread: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5272
Keep up the great work.
where can i dowload it ?
sorry i'm newbie in group , and i want to test this great project, but where can i download it ?
I'm also looking for the download...
I checked the CVS but the version there looks to be an initial commit from 4 weeks ago. Is there a location to check this out? FWIW I'm working on a module to integrate MMS posting and photo to phone delivery. (using mailhandler, mailsave and my module). I was curious to see if you are getting mobile info from users via hook_user so that I'm not replicating things.
Thanks!