By SteveACMA on

I am attempting to make an alert system for our church's nursery using SMS to the parent's cell phone. I have found the SMS framework and have some ideas about setting up the parents as users with their cell phone information in the user area. I am not sure how to put the pieces together. Ideally I would like to present a list of parents. The user would click on the person to be notified, display a list of messages (either drop down or radio buttons) and an option to type a custom message.

I have used the web forms module on our main site and thought there may be an option there but I don't yet see how to tie all of the pieces together. Has anyone done this type of alert before? Any insights would be appreciated!

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StevenSokulski commented

Not to pull you away from Drupal, but if there isn't going to be a lot of need for strong authentication and actual content management and you've got a strong grasp of PHP, you might want to take a peek at Twilio. They allow you to build ridiculously simple apps (in a variety of languages, actually) that send and receive text messages and phone calls.

Inside of Drupal, you might be able to get Twilio working with the notifications module and create an Action that sends a message to the phone number in FieldA every time a new node of type AlertMessage is created.