distribution lists

Editing Distribution Lists and Address Books in NowSMS

One feature of NowSMS that is not very well documented is distribution lists.  Distribution lists are part of the NowSMS web interface, but they are also available for use by other applications.  It is possible to send a bulk SMS message to all of the phone numbers in a distribution list via direct URL submission without using the built-in NowSMS web forms. To keep your distribution lists...

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SMS Distribution Lists with PHP

An earlier post described the HTTP URL formats for working with NowSMS distribution lists. This post provides some example PHP functions that can be used to simplify this process.  Now that NowSMS can support PHP scripts natively without a separate web server, it is even easier to prototype SMS applications with NowSMS. In this example, we’ll use these example PHP functions to allow users...

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