Text Messaging and Click to Call

Asterisk Asterisk APIs
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Friends, just wondering if this is possible…

I would like to prompt a user, over a website, with a dialog box to enter their phone number. THEN I would like to establish a call between the user and a pre-defined number. Also, looking for ability to send a text message in the same fashion. A pop-up will ask for the users phone number and text message. THEN send that message to a pre-defined number. Not a “click to call” thing as in clicking on a phone number!

Any existing resources out there???

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AMI and PHP, Asterisk is not an SMS server you will need third party provider like Twilio

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Ok…Any suggestions for an SMS Server? I suppose, I can use Twilio for both calling and texting. I was hoping Asterisk/FREE PBX could do this…

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I’m hoping to integrate one or more of these features onto websites.

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FreePBX can do both with SIPSTATION trunk and also there is Click to call module I guess, but you need to address those request on the FreePBX forum

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I’ve been trying to get onto that form for a little while now, with no luck…Thanks for the details though! Are you on Facebook by chance?

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I dont use Facebook, any question , concern post it here without tagged me and If I see I can contribute I will.

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ok, thanks very much!

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Unfortuately*, you need to pay to access a short message service center (SMSC). I’ve used Lime and Vitelity. Both use an HTTP request you can submit using cURL. For example, Vitelity’s request looks something like:

        http[s]://smsout-api.vitelity.net/api.php\
                ?allowall=no\                                                                                                                                               
                &cmd=sendsms\
                &dst=xxxxxxxxxx\
                &login=xxxxxx\
                &msg=xxxxxx\
                &pass=xxxxxx\
                &src=xxxxxxxxxx\
                &xml=no

*) If it was free, imagine how much spam we would get hit with.

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It has to be secured, I agree. If you know of any other’ s, please let me know.

Thank you

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Ha. I just noticed that snippet I posted from a program written back in 2015 still used ‘http’ instead of https!

Fixed.

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hahaha…it needs to be secured to prevent abuse.

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