I am looking to write a small application that receives an SMS text message and records the results in an online database. I am most comfortable with php/mysql, but can use any suggestions you might have.
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I am looking to write a small application that receives an SMS text message and records the results in an online database. I am most comfortable with php/mysql, but can use any suggestions you might have.
I wrote something cute and small like this last summer, but I cheated using an actual SMS server and used Twitter to receive my text messages in a specific format, then had a daemon service running through my RSS feed every n time units to pull in the data and store it in a flat file. It was a fun exercise, and free, and as far as I know no free SMS receivers are available. You can use MySQL if you want, but I feel like you’ll need a language that’s more designed for writing a service than a web application (i.e. PHP)