I am looking to have a solution developed that will incorporate the Hylafax API into my drupal site. Several functions i am looking for.
1. To allow users to send a self made fax message to a fax number specified in a CCK field. See (www.questionobama.com/politicians) for example....would like to have an option that says "send a fax message" and then allows user to fill out a form with their own contact info and a message
2. Allow admin to create a content type called "Fax" that has a predefined fax body and a CCK fax number. Allow users to submit to send the fax after completing their contact information. See (http://www.numbersusa.com/dfax?id=11139) for example.
I am looking at Hylafax because it seems to be an opensource and free service. I am open to other solutions if there are ones that accomplish the same objectives for no or very little price per fax.
Here is another example of a similar execution of what i am looking for http://www.1payer.net/faxapp/
Thanks
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We have implemented fax to
We have implemented fax to legislator functionality several times. Here's an example:
http://www.aktnow.com/cta/stop-all-federal-funding-acorn-now
We looked at implementing Hylafax, but ultimately decided we couldn't manage a dedicated fax modem on the server. We ended up using a few different paid fax services callable from within the PHP code of a custom module. Most effective was Interfax (no affiliation).
Interesting. Did you
Interesting. Did you evaluate TPC at all in your evaluation of solutions. www.tpc.int/
It's been a few years, but
It's been a few years, but yes - we tried out TPC. It worked reasonably well, but it didn't work out for us since we were looking for verification of successfully delivered faxes. Since TPC ( at least at the time) used an email gateway for faxes, it didn't provide a way to to do this.
Our approach was to implement a SOAP based mechanism instead. Although not free, I found this much cleaner.
Sending faxes from Drupal
Regardless of who you use to provide the service, free faxes will only ever be feasible where the end point is in a country where the service provider might have nodes that could take advantage of free local call rates. Although the fax can be sent across the net, the final stage will always involve a good old fashioned phone call. So in many cases, sending faxes reliably will only be viable if you're prepared to pay for them.
Re, Interfax, I have recently done consulting/development work for them which involved developing an interface between Drupal/PHP and Interfax's API. If you do decide to go for Interfax, I would be happy to bid for your project.
making a CRM (hylafax + drupal ..)
i am working on a same project
using drupal as a CRM,
in this project i must aply a fax automation system (i preferred that i used hylafax)
may be i can help you with in this project