SMS Updates/news to users

Posted by granttoth on February 16, 2009 at 11:57pm

Hey guys,

I have been looking in to the sms modules for 5.x. I am looking to set up something like the simplenews module but rather than a newsletter I am looking to blast sms to users, updating them about thing like school closures, extreme weather, and road closures.

The ideal solution would be for users to use their carriers email gateway so it would be free. They would select the type of update they want, input their number, this in turn would subscribe them to the update. It would also be great if it integrated with their user accounts so they could unsubscribe themselves. Ideally I don't want to have to do anything other then send out the text message.

Is this possible?

Comments

This is very do-able using a

Posted by thollback on February 26, 2009 at 9:16pm

This is very do-able using a combination of the Messaging, Notifications, and SMS Framework modules.

SMS Blast by itself does not appear to support segmentation of users by subscription type, but you could accomplish this by creating a node content type for each message type, and allowing the users to subscribe to the message types they were interested in.

thanks a lot for help here, I

Posted by Gentoo7 on April 10, 2009 at 12:08pm

thanks a lot for help here, I am looking for the same functionability but I can't get it to work.
Please let me know if you got this to work out.

thanks