distribution lists

SMS Distribution Lists with PHP

An earlier post described the HTTP URL formats for working with NowSMS distribution lists. This post provides some example PHP functions that can be used to simplify this process.  Now that NowSMS can support PHP scripts natively without a separate web server, it is even easier to prototype SMS applications with NowSMS. In this example, we’ll use these example PHP functions to allow users...

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Editing Distribution Lists and Address Books in NowSMS

The NowSMS documentation doesn’t provide any technical information about the format of the distribution lists and address books that are available via the web interface. In particular, the distribution lists can be very useful. You can send a bulk SMS message to all of the phone numbers in a distribution list even if you are using direct URL submission without using the built-in NowSMS web...

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