SMS Update and Screencast

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Will White's picture

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.

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Neat - Great work!

skor's picture

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

KentBye's picture

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 ?

phildu's picture

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...

Moonshine@drupal.org's picture

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!

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