Updating website via SMS?

Could you get the SMS forwarded to an email, or have people email from their phone instead? You could then poll an email account and process the messages into blog posts.
 
It'll just be for me, and no email on the phone. Will look into SMS -> email services though, good idea..
 
You could probably use the twitter API?
update your twitter via your mobile, then get your site to display the messages?

I have never used the API but it sounds possible.
 
Surely you could use that blog from CBF and have a cronjob that monitors the page at say a fixed interval and applies the updates to the site. I wouldn't be tempted to use twitter just due to the nature of it really, and i assume that thing has some sort of prevention from anyone embedding it on their site by some kind of Key too so it will probably be more private than twitter :)

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CardboardFish has got to be the most awesome name for a company! If i am to start a company i will have to go down a similar route, maybe call it granite Lobster or something :D
 
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Got to be kidding right? :p Sounds like it's straight off a generator: http://www.breadlinedesign.com/naming_machine/index.htm

Lol exactly thats why, its just silly ;)

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This seems like quite a cool way to make changes to websites so i had a little play and got it working with a bit of PHP although it isn't integrated into joomla and i made it to handle page settings it wouldn't take much to change it to make a post. Although with posting you're limited to only 160 characters so its only 20 better than twitter!
 
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You could probably use the twitter API?
update your twitter via your mobile, then get your site to display the messages?

I have never used the API but it sounds possible.

Hadn't thought about that - thank you

why SMS? cant you just create a form which posts from your smart phone browser?

No WAP/GPRS

Lol exactly thats why, its just silly ;)

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This seems like quite a cool way to make changes to websites so i had a little play and got it working with a bit of PHP although it isn't integrated into joomla and i made it to handle page settings it wouldn't take much to change it to make a post. Although with posting you're limited to only 160 characters so its only 20 better than twitter!

Interesting... although I think i'll need those extra 20 characters! Such a script is very much in demand after searching, why not consider making one? I could be your test site ;) :D
 
Interesting... although I think i'll need those extra 20 characters! Such a script is very much in demand after searching, why not consider making one? I could be your test site ;) :D

I have never used Joomla and have enough half baked projects on the go! Plus i just downloaded Joomla and really don't have the time to figure it out :( Do you know any PHP? its not a very hard thing to implement really just needing to know joomla and where/how to put it in...
 
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