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CiviCRM Components
Tools for engaging your supporters...
GAMMU integrated with Civicrm for sending SMS
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.
civiCASE
Case management for clients and constituents.
civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.
civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.
civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.
civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
civiREPORT
Report generation and template management.
Iam using drupal 5.10 and civicrm 2.0 on a server that I maintain. The server is running Scientific Linux 5.2 and I have compiled Gammu version 1.20.0 on it. http://www.gammu.org is "Free tools and software for cellular devices and phones". I can use it for sending SMS via a old cellular phone in my case an Sony Ericsson T290i connected with the usb cable DCU-11. I have set up Gammu to use an mysql db for reciving and sending sms.
I then copied the "send mail to contact" Task and added my own version but change it to "send sms to contact" and I then use gammu for sending the sms. Some help from this page http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/How+to+Add+Actions+to+the+Contact+Search+Dropdown .
Integrating it with civicrm is really cool I can use all of civicrms tokens to put it in my sms. I use a cheep phone card with a lot of free sms in my phone so I sort of got my own SMS gateway integrated into Civicrm. Right now I have no way for getting sms into civicrm if some one reply on an sms It is stored in Gammus sms DB and a mail is sent to me with the number and message. It would be really cool to have an opt in opt out thing with sms also. I will look in to that later perhaps.
Conclusion Civicrm and Gammu is a easy, cheep and good way to contact people via SMS.
I will try to write down what I have done.
Comments
Drupal SMS framework & Joomla extension com_mysms
It would be great to have this documented - it would be useful for many people.
In addition, I really think that the SMS linkages through existing Drupal modules and Joomla extensions make sense rather than a purpose built CiviSMS.
I agree
But it was the easiest way to do this for me right now!
I have written down my code http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9437234
it is not so good but I dont really have the time right now! But I will try to help as much as I can to help intigrate gammu with drupal module and civicrm!
Please do!
One of our clients would be very excited about this functionality--any documentation you can do will be GREATLY appreciated. Also, if you can assign my team a task I can have my programmer look at it to help move this forward. Awesome!
Importance?
What is most important the civicrm code or the whole phone connection with gammu?
thanx for doing this ..
any chance you can share the code under an open source license? If so, can you create a wiki page under here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Third+Party+Modules
and add a description along with the code
thanx
lobo
Planning
Just need to get the time for it! And Perhaps need to clean it up and create more of a standalone module. But I have it on my to do list.