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20-Sep-12 16:30
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eddie eddie's avatar Rank: none
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Hi Matt, I'm using php to send sms messages to mobile phones ( on trial phase now, but it works), my question is:
Is there anyway I can use style to design the way the message that I send will appear on the person's (client's) phone, either with php or jquery?
I wasn't sure if this is a programming or design question, so I'm posting it here, so far I can send the text, but it's just plain.
22-Sep-12 18:01
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SMS messages ARE plain text.

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24-Sep-12 07:01
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Thanks for the response,I understand but is there any format that can be sent to a mobile phone as an image? I'm talking about sms but if there's any other format that I can use to do that.
Thanks.
25-Sep-12 09:57
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SMS doesn't handle images as the maximum length of a single message is 160 ASCII characters, or 70 for Unicode character languages, such as Chinese. That is why it is called SMS which is an acronym of Short Message Service.

To send images you have to use MMS (Multimedia Message Service which can transfer Binary Encoded Data

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25-Sep-12 13:46
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And how can i send mms? How does it work?
26-Sep-12 17:18
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For PHP you need a MMS library
http://www.hellkvist.org/software/#MMSLIB

http://freecode.com/projects/mmslib


Or

http://www.nowsms.com/doc/submitting-mms-messages/send-mms-message-with-php

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27-Sep-12 07:46
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Thank you very much
 
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