phpSMS v0.7 Documentation
                                       
     * Official phpSMS project homepage
       http://phpsms.sourceforge.net
     * Local documents:
          Version history: ChangeLog
          General notes: README
          License: LICENSE
     * Documentation version: v0.7 (16 January 2003)
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   [1]Introduction  -  [2]Requirements  -  [3]Installation  -
   [4]Configuration  -  [5]FAQ  -  [6]Developers  -  [7]Credits
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[1] Introduction

     phpSMS is a PHP-script to send short messages (SMS) from your website 
     to mobile phones using various free-sms-providers on the web.


[2] Requirements

     * PHP3 or PHP4 installed on your web-server
     * A web-browser (doh!)


[3] Installation

     It's pretty easy to get phpSMS working with the built-in free-sms-providers.
     Just put the all the files into the same directory, which is accessible 
     from the web.

	If you are satisfied with the pre configured sms gateway utanet.at (Austria) you
	can go on and try out the script.

     Launch your browser, go to the location of the phpSMS file 
     (something like this: http://yourhost.com/pathtophpsms/phpSMS.php) and have a try.


[4] Configuration

     If you want to use a non built-in free-sms-provider you have to find some things 
     about the provider you are going to use
     
     * where is the page where you type in number, message etc (this will be the $referrer)
     * where is the script which actually sends the message (look at the sourcecode 
       of the referrer page and check out the <form ...> tag - this will be the $path)
     * which variable names does the provider use (what's in the query string and what 
       is passed to the script which sends the sms - this will be the aliases ... 
       alias_number = "the variable name you found out which contains the number of the 
       receiver etc.)

     In future releases this will be more comfortable by using seperate config files for 
     each free-sms-provider.


[5] FAQ

     Q: Can you add other free-sms-providers?
     	A: Yes, we probably could, but we will not do this. Check for the infos yourself.


[6] Developers

     phpSMS is Open Source, so you are invited to contribute to it. If 
     you added a new feature please inform us so future releases will 
     contain the new features.
     
     If you would like to constantly contibute mail me and I will 
     coordinate the work which is done.
     
     We do not use cvs so far but plan to do so in the future.
     
     TODO-List:
     	* time-shifted sms


[7] Credits

     fuzzie <fuzzie@hartware.at>
     * founder and maintainer of the phpSMS project
     greggae <gregi@users.sourceforge.net>
     * mainly responsible for versions > 0.7