Hi

I'd like to suggest the addition of a second column in the Subscriptions module, that would allow subscribing to update notifications via SMS messages to a mobile phone.

I can see the user profile including his/her mobile phone number and, if such field is not empty, the Subscriptions page offering notification via SMS. (if the field is empty, maybe the page should prompt the user to fill it)

The feature would be implemented by sending the new story text (truncated to 160 chars) by regular email, but to an email-to-SMS external gateway service. Thus the message should include the gateway account/password (plus the destination number) in the Subject field, and the text in the message body. It would be nice if the gateway settings are managed via Admin, but hard-coding them would be enough.

I'm willing to beta-test the feature if someboby decides to approach it.

Regards
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Albert

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therave’s picture

therave commented

Hi Albert,

I don't know it this helps, but I've created a project to provide a SMS Gateway, usable by other modules. The site owner needs to have a SMS gateway account (the module currently only supports the Clickatell service, but I'm trying to build a pluggable framework to allow others to be added). Obviously support needs to be added to other modules which need it - my module only provides the services and self-test and configuration capabilities.

It's in Drupal CVS at the moment, or downloadable as a zip file at my site. I'll add it as a proper module project once I've been able to test the incoming message reception properly.

Regards
david

David Hamilton
http://www.jiffle.net/

bdragon’s picture

bdragon commented
Version: 4.5.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This is certainly a wontfix for subscriptions itself, but it might be feasible to write an addon module now that the 5.x-2.0 rewrite has happened.