Sending MMS

Send MMS Message from PHP Script

Note: For additional APIs for sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages, please see our Developer APIs for SMS + MMS page. Back in 2003, we posted an example PHP script for sending MMS via NowSMS on our discussion board at https://nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/1113.html. While this script has worked well over the years, it has a serious limitation in that it does not support SSL/TLS. Version 2...

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Send MMS from C# .NET

A .NET C# example for sending MMS messages via NowSMS has been posted at the following link: https://nowsms.com/download/sendmms.c#.txt For a VB.NET version of this example, please see the related article Send MMS from VB.NET. MMS examples for other environments (PHP, Java, command line) can be found at https://nowsms.com/sending-mms-messages-with-nowsms. As discussed in Sending MMS Messages...

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Send MMS from VB.NET

A VB.NET example for sending MMS messages via NowSMS has been posted at the following link: https://nowsms.com/download/sendmms.vb.txt For a C# .NET version of this example, please see the related article Send MMS from C# .NET. MMS examples for other environments (PHP, Java, command line) can be found at https://nowsms.com/sending-mms-messages-with-nowsms. As discussed in Sending MMS Messages...

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Basic MMS SMIL Tutorial

A recent thread on the NowSMS discussion board made my head hurt:  MMS: first shows a picture and then the text It started off simple enough. If you send an MMS message using the simple web form in NowSMS, and you include some text and an image, the resulting message displays the text first and then the image. What if you want the image displayed first and then the text? Or what if you want the...

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Sending MMS Messages with NowSMS

Once you have succesfully configured NowSMS so that it is possible to send MMS messages via the web interface, you may want to explore APIs for sending MMS messages programmatically. The NowSMS APIs for sending MMS messages are based upon either the HTTP or SMTP protocols. However, before we go into details about these protocols, there may be an easy way to interface with NowSMS without learning...

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Send MMS from Java (or JSP)

A Java example for sending MMS messages via NowSMS has been posted at the following link: https://nowsms.com/download/sendmms.java.txt This class supports all of the MMS related parameters available in NowSMS, most of which are described later in this posting. For a related PHP script, please see: https://nowsms.com/nowsms-php-example-send-mms-message To use this Java class, begin by creating a...

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Send MMS from the Command Line

Last time, I posted a Windows JScript file that could be used to enable the sending of OMA Client Provisioning (XML Settings) documents from a command line interface. Pretty cool? Well, I thought so. But it is of somewhat limited usage to the average NowSMS customer, as the volume of OMA Client Provisioning messages being sent out via NowSMS is far less than messages of other types. What would be...

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