Comments on: Using SMS Text Messages with Quartz Composer

By: Waxtastic

Waxtastic — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:33:22 +0000

Cocoa UltraSMS is pretty flawed as the encoding doesn’t recognize other than English characters.

You have to manually add the replace codes in the php file. Here is a table that shows the correct decimal codes you need to use http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537495(VS.85).aspx

By: bogga

bogga — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:30:49 +0000

i set it up on localhost too. thanks a lot! i’m getting errors though, - i’m norwegian, - scandinavian letters æ,ø,å, - you seem to have removed the lines of code that deal with those. could you mail me those lines? they are not identical to swedish ä, ö, å though

By: Waxtastic

Waxtastic — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:27:16 +0000

OK. Just tested this. Seems to work perfectly with localhost.

Setting up MySQL in Leopard is a little bit of a hassle, or at least it was a few months ago when I did it, but there’s plenty of instructions if you google it.

Here is a good tutorial on how to work with php in localhost. http://www.procata.com/blog/archives/2007/10/28/working-with-php-5-in-mac-os-x-105/

Really helpful tool in creating and modifying databases: http://yoursql.ludit.it/

By: Waxtastic

Waxtastic — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:41:04 +0000

You can do this all in localhost also. I just found it easier to use my webserver. I haven’t really tested this, because my non-s60-phone disappeared/was stolen and Cocoa UltraSMS only works with non-s60 phones.

Another option, if you have an s60 phone - is to use Mercurio: http://jmarinez.typepad.com/blog/

By: bogga

bogga — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:38:14 +0000

sorry, i dont get it. i need mysql hosting for ultrasms and additional php hosting for the php file? may i use my .mac account for the php file? could this be done internally on my mbp to avoid port number conflicts when i’m not at home?

By: steve Holmes

steve Holmes — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:08:05 +0000

Thanks for this works great a really, really useful solution so thank you so much for sharing.
Steve

By: Waxtastic

Waxtastic — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:01:59 +0000

OK. That seemed to be what was wrong. The WYSIWYG Wordpress editor removed a couple of backward slashes from the code. I missed those and never actually tested the code that showed on the blog post.

It’s fixed now.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out Amon!

By: Waxtastic

Waxtastic — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:35:16 +0000

hmm.. I’m really a noobie in php also so I can’t really help you. I got that file working with the help of some tutorials and a bunch of luck.

I had a lot of problems trying to copy the code as it should be on this blog because Wordpress always tries to mess with your text thinking it knows what I want to do. So it actually is possible that the code I posted here is not working properly and the Wordpress text editor has removed some of the code. I’ll have to check if that’s the case.

Has anyone actually used this tutorial successfully?

By: amon robe

amon robe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:02:29 +0000

great but with my poor php knowledge i couldn´t get the thing to work… getting this error on the php file…

Parse error: parse error in /home/httpd/vhosts/designanstalt.net/httpdocs/sms/sms.php on line 16

any idea?

greetings
amon

By: ernst

ernst — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:08:19 +0000

This looks great man. Haven´t got the time to check it out yet, but it would be very nice to test out in a future gigg/project. I will bookmark the page and get ready to use some free time to get this up and running for my self. Thanx!!