I am currently working on a large project and part of the project is to send simple text message notices using PHP. Our client had looked into a number of expensive services to send simple SMS messages but most were cost prohibitive for a start-up venture.
As usual, I was not satisfied paying for something that I should be able to do on my own. So I started thinking about how the messaging systems worked and realized that we could just use the carriers built in email addresses for MMS messaging. This is a great, cost effective method for sending text messages but it does require that you know the user’s carrier for the message to be successfully delivered. In our case, we are able to ask for that in the web form which we are using to collect the user’s phone num