My hosting company provides a service where I can send SMS messages via Email through them. So I created a simple snippet, very similar to a standard contact Email snippet (in fact I ripped off most of the guts from the contactform snippet that comes with a default MODx installation).
The service requires a very specific "to" address and subject, so those need to be configured for whatever service you will be using. I don’t know if every service like this uses this same format, but this appears to work fine for this particular one. The "to" address takes the form of "
[email protected]", and the subject must be "code#accountusername".
It’s very crude; I would like to tack an Ajax front-end onto it, among other things.
// specific information needed for sms email service
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'code#username';
// Instructions
$instructions = "Fill out your name, email, and a brief SMS-style message. All fields are required.";
// Success Message
$success = "Your message has been sent.";
// Class for containing Success Message <p>
$successClass = "message";
// Failure <p> class
$failClass = "error";
// Empy Field failure message
$emptyFields = "One of the fields was left blank. Please put something in all fields.";
// General failure message
$generalFail = "Sorry, there was an error! Please try again later.";
// Bad email failure message
$failedEmail= (isset($_POST['sms_email']))? $_POST['sms_email']: '';
$emailFail = "The email address you supplied (".$failedEmail.") does not appear to be valid. Please try again.";
if (isset($_POST['sms_send'])) {
$from = $_POST['sms_name'];
$from_email = $_POST['sms_email'];
$message = $_POST['sms_message'];
if ( ($from == '')||($from_email == '')||($message == '') ) {
$SendMail .= "<p class=\"$failClass\">$emptyFields</p>";
} elseif (eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})%body%quot;, $from_email)) {
$headers = "From: $from <$from_email>\r\n";
// clean out potential tomfoolery...
$message = $modx->stripTags($message);
$body = "Name: $from\nEmail: $from_email\nMessage:\n\n" . $message;
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
$SendMail .= "<p class=\"$successClass\">$success</p>";
return $SendMail;
} else {
$SendMail .= "<p class='$failClass'>$generalFail</p>";
$send = "false";
}
} else {
$SendMail .= "<p class=\"$failClass\">$emailFail</p>";
$send = "false";
}
} else {
$SendMail .= "<p>$instructions</p>";
}
$SendMail .= '
<div id="sms_box">
<form id="sms_form" method="post" name="sms_form" action="[~[*id*]~]">
<fieldset>
<label for="sms_name">Your Name: <input type="text" class="text" name="sms_name" /><span id="n_required">Required</span></label>
<label for="sms_email">Your Email: <input type="text" class="text" name="sms_email" /><span id="e_required">Required</span><span id="i_email"></span></label>
<label for="sms_message">Your Message: <input type="text" class="text" name="sms_message" /><span id="m_required">Required</span></label>
<input type="submit" name="sms_send" class="button" value="Send Message" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
';
return $SendMail;
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