Been doing some research on how to setup an SMS alert straight to the website owner’s (our customer) phone when a website visitor fills in a form on his website. Obviously we’re happy to sign up to a provider and pay a few cents for each message – not expecting this to be a freebie service.
A lot of the google results you get for this deal with bulk texting out to the many recipients which isn’t what we’re looking at here.
So what’s the simplest small-scale way to achieve this via HTML and simple scripting?
This daniweb forum post offers clear and simple instructions using Coldfusion and that’s fine but as it’s 7 years old we wonder if things have moved on and are there better suggestions?
We’d be happy to script it very simply through ASP.NET or PHP or something else, but hoping to keep it lightweight, since this is a very simple website belonging to a small business.
Eventually we used Esendex. Good support from them, decent code samples and plenty of mileage in the free trial (which in fact they were happy to extend when we asked).