There’s really only three steps.
- Find a SMS provider that has some form of widget code that will let you do this.
- Sign up for their service and pay whatever fees they are asking for.
- Add the widget to your site.
I’ll pretty much guarantee that there’s no free service out there, and if there is I’d be a bit wary of using it as sending SMS’s out like that can turn out to be a very expensive exercise.
Imagine… Some bot finds your sites SMS sending form, and proceeds to use it to send out 1,000,000’s of SPAM messages to every phone number it can find… all of which you’d be paying for. There’s a lot more to the security of things likt this than is readily visible.
Just as @catacaustic pointed out, it will be really expensive to maintain the site, I have seen a website that started with the hope of getting companies to advertise through their platform, limiting the number of characters the user can send. But the company folded up in a matter of weeks.
However, if you’ve got things covered, this link might help http://www.clickatell.com.au/blog/2010/08/welcome-the-global-village-savvy-developer-creates-bulk-sms-wordpress-plugin/
Thank you all for your contribution…but what do you say about this provider: http://www.opentextingonline.com/widgets/textfree.aspx
Are they for real?
