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1. BareHug
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I wrote this hack to provide mms input to wordpress. This is version 0.1 and has not been completly tested but does work for my first purpose; to store photos in wordpress directly from my cellphone.

   To use it all you need do is place the two files wp-mms.php and mmslib.php in the home directory for WordPress. You also must have the two directories /wp-filez and /wp-photos located under your blog’s home directory both with write access.

   For more information and download go to:
   http://gnbi.com/blog/?p=202

2. BareHug
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   
   

3. BareHug
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   MMS Server Drop-in for WordPress 1.5

   Update: version 0.2 is now available at http://gnbi.com/blog/?p=202

   This version includes some new features as well as a couple of bug fixes. Most notably is an option to determine if a cellphone user is allowed to post. If you turn this option off then anyone can post. (not a great idea) Version 0.1 allowed this so beware!!!

   This is accomplished by requiring the user to register using their 10 digit cell # as their login. Each incoming MMS message is checked to see if it's 10 digit phone number has already been registered as a login. Remember that their nickname is published on the blog so their cellphone number is not out there for all to see. They will have to do this using a browser and go through the normal email verification process to create the account.

   The wordpress security is then checked against the incoming MMS cellphone # and will only allow registered users with a high enough user level to post via MMS just like with regular posts.

   An option to select thumbnail size for both max width and max height is easily changed in the user options. (default is 400X300) Thumbnailing is accomplished using php only and does not require installing Image Majic or the like.

   The subject of the incoming MMS is parsed and attempts to locate a category to place the post in. A subject line like (Photos) Me Skydiving would search WordPress to see if a category exists and if so the post will be placed in it otherwise it goes to the WordPress default category. The (Photos) gets stripped off the subject and the remainder Me Skydiving becomes the post title. Also works for numeric category entry like (3).

   Any text accompaning the photo is placed below the photo thumbnail in the post. If an audio file was also attached a link to it is also placed in the text area below the photo.

   An example of an MMS post is at http://gnbi.com/blog/?p=222

4. BareHug
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   MMS Server Drop-in for WordPress 1.5

   Version 0.3 is released.

   Corrects some bugs and adds more content-types.

   For more information and download go to:
   http://gnbi.com/blog/?p=202

   You can get it here http://gnbi.com/blog/wp-filez/wp-mms.zip

5. mcangeli
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   BareHug, I'm confused as to where I send the message. Do I send it to an email address (as though I was using wp-mail.php) or do I send it to the url of the wp-mms.php page??

   Thanks!

6. BareHug
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   You don’t send to email. You use MMS. On Verizon you would say send a photo normally to Pix Place. So in your cellphone you change the setup so that instead of sending to http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms you would make it http://www.yourserver.com/your_blog/wp-mms.php?

   You can find more info about MMS servers at http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=581150

7. SimoP
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Great plugin, but should I be able to send normal mms also with the settings that needs to be used with this plugin? Now I can send the mms to my blog, but it still says "MMS sending failed" because it goes only to the server and to the blog, not any further.

   Or is it just so that I need to sets of mms settings? No solution to manage with one?

8. BareHug
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   SimoP
   Sorry I am having some trouble understanding your question. You say you can send MMS to the blog does it say "MMS sending failed" even when it sucessfully goes just to the blog? You say it fails because it goes only to the "server" (what server are you talking about here?)

   If you have your phone MMS set to send to your blog then that is where the pics go; they are not forwarded to anywhere else. If you reset your phone's MMS settings to point to another "server" then that is where they would go. Are you trying to get them to go to both places at the same time? What is your "server"? Is that one you have setup yourself or one provided by your cell phone company like PixPlace for Verizon?

   It would be possible for me to add code to forward a repackaged version of the MMS message to an email address (including another phone's email address) in addition to saving it on the blog, but is not something currently implemented. Is that what your looking to do?

9. katesgasis
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Why not try creating a free account in flickr if you only want to send pictures and then use that to send your post to your wordpress blog. Flickr does not post to your blog if the email you sent has no pictures attached. Flickr has a Meta something API that allows you to send email to it then it will post the content of the email to your wordpress blog. That way you can use mms on your phone without added plugins. One

10. innocuoussoul
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    hey barehug,
    I am having issues with posting. They seem to have a huge difference between actual time and when they are posted. (like 5 hours difference). If i set wordpress' time from -10 to -5, then your hack has the right time, but wordpress becomes 5 hours late. any help?

11. yeldarbj
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #

    I have also had this problem but mine is only 1 hour off. Text messages work fine but if I send an MMS the message is received but it is not posted for an hour. I realise that this may be an issue with my cell phone provider but any sugestions would be helpful. Thanks

12. douglemoine
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Okay, I've changed the server name on my MMS-enabled phone, so I now connect to http://www.douglemoine.com/diary/wp-mms.php instead of the standard Cingular server.

    Here's my question, when I send the MMS, what do I put in the To: field? It doesn't seem like it would matter, but I figured I'd ask because I can't get it to work.

13. douglemoine
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Disregard the above question. Wow. It actually works.

    Now here's my next question ... How would one attach styles to these posts? For instance, if I want a different class to apply to these thumbs than to others, where would I insert this in the code?

    Thanks.

14. BareHug
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    innocuoussoul & yeldarbj
    Sorry I was adding rather than subtracting the gmt offset. I have placed a corrected version on my site http://gnbi.com/blog/wp-filez/wp-mms.zip

15. BareHug
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    To: douglemoine
    I added a <div class="mms-post> at the begining of each mms posted message and a </div> at the end so that you can style the mms messages uniquely. I also added a class="mms-thumb to each <img> thumbnail tag so the image thumbnails may be uniguely styled. So for instance if you wanted to make the background black, center the thumbnail and add a yellow border around it; you would add something like the following to your theme style sheet:

    .post.mms-post { /*for styling mms messages*/
    background-color: #000000;
    text-align: center;
    }

    img.mms-thumb { /*for styling mms thumbnails*/
    margin: 10px;
    padding: 8px;
    background-color: #FFFF00;
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    }

    These changes to wp-mms should have no effect except to allow you to add additional styling for the mms posted messages.

    These changes are also on the current 0.31 version on my server. http://gnbi.com/blog/wp-filez/wp-mms.zip

16. BareHug
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I thought I'd let you all know there is an updated to my MMS drop in for WordPress version 0.32 can be found at http://gnbi.com/blog/?p=314

17. BareHug
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I have posted a new version 0.34 to my site with several bug fixes and a couple of enhancements. Please see http://gnbi.com/blog/?p=361

18. BareHug
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Just thought I'd let ya know I became aware that users on systems where "safe mode" was enabled were encountering problems in getting the 100% complete message back to their cellphones. Thanks to the help of Jon Watson http://www.jonwatson.com/ I beleive these have been resolved. The latest version 0.43 is available from my site http://gnbi.com/blog/wp-filez/wp-mms.zip. For more information on this dropin check http://gnbi.com/blog/?p=430

19. davidhildreth
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    thanks for the mms script, although i am having trouble configuring my phone.
    i have the "message server" set to my website/wp-mms.php but when i send a message it says "unsupported content, please rewrite"

    do i need to change any of the settings under the "internet profile"? im assuming that is just how my phone gets to the net

    i have a sony ericsson phone and cingular
    thanks

20. BareHug
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    WP-MMS is now a real WordPress 2.0 Plugin. The support site where you can download the plugin and find information instructions and support is http://gnbi.com/wp-mms/ Previous users of the dropin should load the plugin and begin to use it instead of the dropin. The plugin uses a different directory structure and does not interfere with the earlier dropin if for some reason you want to leave it active as well. The Plugin does add several features and bug corrections and therefore should be fazed in for normal use.

21. texx1978
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    hi.

    i have installed this plugin and it work fine with the testfile.

    Then i change my cellphone apn to the mms-server php file. now i get a "network error" when i send the mms.

    is there a specail setting for the mms relay server??

    thx

22. BareHug
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    texx1978,
    Can you tell me which carrier your with? Also can you provide the URL to the wp-mms.php file on your server so I can take a look?

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