Hi all,
I'm curious, I can get "unlimited" text messages to my phone - and I've seen this on some other sites, but how do I go about getting a form on my site so people can send me a text message?

My carrier is AT&T if that makes a difference.

Thanks,
Barbara

There are a few ways you could do it (SMS gateway, email-to-text etc). However, I will list probably the cheapest and easiest one -

AT&T should provide you with an email-to-text address such as your-cell-number@mobile.att.com (something like that) or if they don't you should be able to activate one somewhere on their website.

After you have got your email-to-text address sorted out just setup a form mail type script on your website that when submitted will email the form data to your-cell-number@mobile.att.com.

One thing you may need to do though is limit the number of characters that can be input into the form before submission, as your phone will only be able to handle so many.

That's really all there is to it :)

Chris

I use www.clickatell.com as an SMS gateway for one of my sites ([removed]).

Unfortunatly it will still cost money to send SMS to your phone even though it costs nothing for you to recieve them...

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Hi Chris,
Thanks a lot - I found it in their FAQs, it's @mobile.att.net for those curious. :)

Now, seems pretty simple from here on out. I'll give it a try.

Thanks again.