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gehad
gehad

Reputation: 1325

SMS sender application using API

I want to make a program that will communicate with a database that has name, mobile number, etc. and send them SMS messages in different occasions through HTTP API provided by a service provider. I want the database and the application to be running in an external server and go through list of names every day to send messages. Please give me a head start on what would be an appropriate programming language/database and where can I host my application. I can send SMS through HTTP request that the service provider has

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 330

Answers (2)

Martin Harari Thuresson
Martin Harari Thuresson

Reputation: 31

I would use the programming language that i´m most familiar with. Since the application is simple a simple .csv file would probaly enough unless you have > 5000 numbers to send to. Personally a use GleSYS VPS for hosting my SMS applications and i use 46elks SMS AIP to send SMS this combination woks very well for me. If you have very little demands you may try to use a Raspberry PI.

I use Python or PHP for most smal funcation.

Upvotes: 1

Tim Lytle
Tim Lytle

Reputation: 17624

A LAMP stack is pretty accessible (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP), and you could accomplish what you describe with a few simple PHP scripts and a cron job - assuming that you just need to send messages once a day.

If your messages are also scheduled for specific times, then it might be wise to move to a stack that persists in memory - as it could continuously check the schedule more easily than PHP's single request model. Perhaps node.js if this is something you need, Javascript is also pretty accessible.

Upvotes: 1

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