By netentropy on

does anyone know how to directly do this. like say i text the pic to the site and it posts?

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thomjjames’s picture

thomjjames commented

Hi,

i'm very interested in this feature too, i will be looking into it for one of my sites in the future, however i don't where to start looking??

think there might be a beta module available for posting blog entries or something similar via SMS??

cheers
Tom

www.adrenalinehub.com

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coreb’s picture

coreb commented

For one user to be able to do this on a site, you could probably try the MailHandler module. Set up an email address that will autoinsert photos as nodes. I don't know how it handles attachments.

For multiple users on a site, that will be a little more complicated.

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netentropy commented

i was thinking if there was a way to link the incoming number to the user id so when a phone texts the pic to the sites email it could pick out hte user id and post under that name. may be asking for too much here though.

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coreb commented

Mailalias looks like it will let you do the associating of an email address to a username. They would need to know the email-to-SMS address for their phone (ex. Cingular's is xxxxxxxxxx@mobile.mycingular.com where the x's are your 10 digit mobile number).

Although I still don't know how attachments are handled by Mailhandler, you would need to test that out since your images would be attachments.

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dublin drupaller commented

there's a moblog.module in the cvs repository that might be use.not sure what stage of dev. it's at, but, thought it worth mentioning.

dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

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coreb commented

It's almost 2 years old, and I see somewhere in the CVS comments that they added some functionality for pre-4.5.

Maybe I should bite the bullet and start learning the new ( and old ) APIs so that I can help bring some of these contrib modules up to a semi-current state.

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netentropy commented

if anyone wants to tackle this. i will help however i can. i am fairly new to joomla but will test test test until my blood runs dry.

thomjjames’s picture

thomjjames commented

Hi,

as i said above i'd be interested in the functionality, so i'll be interested in helping out with testing/debugging/contributing, i'm good with PHP but my coding style may need some cleaning up for drupal.

does anyone know the workflow for sending information from a mobile to the internet?

ie. mobile >> service provider >> website address???

cheers everyone

Tom

www.adrenalinehub.com

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https://tomswebstuff.com

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netentropy commented

just checking in on this. I saw over at Joomla that had a functioning componet called mms blog. It may give some insite in how to get this to work.

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discursives commented

in the long run drupal can be more and more effective for personal use the faster we can work together to adapt the software to the cutting prosumer edge of consumer grade technology.

with the latest push by mobile telcos to upsell 3g technology in urban and metro areas there will be more people than ever looking to load their pics straight to the web simply because its so difficult to manage files on silly mobile phones.

overcoming all the provider centric business is a steep hurdle. this type of project, basically a set of modules to handles sms and mms from all the major providers as inbound data to a drupal site, is something that shoudl appeal to all different kinds of organizations, corporations, and projects.

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netentropy commented

so whats the major difference between SMS and MMS?