Hi all,
in the Center of Innovation for the Information Society (CICEI) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), a block named Sending SMS block has been developed. This block allows to send SMSs to Moodle course participants.
Instructions of how to use it are in Modules and plugins database in moodle.org. There are versions for Moodle 1.6 and Moodle 1.9.
We hope you enjoy it. Any idea will be well received. We'll try to answer here any questions related to this block.
Borja.
Hola Borja.
El bloque tras ser instalado en la versión 1.9.3. da este error: Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students, y aparece un error en la página (linea 73, carácter 45 'document.theform.messagebody' es nulo o no es un objeto), y no se carga el form al que hace referencia el primero de estos dos errores.
Esto ocurre tras configurar el bloque con el proveedor dinahosting y haber contratado un paquete de sms asociados a un usuario también configurado ya en el bloque.
Os agradecería me ayudáseis.
Gracias y un saludo.
hello Borja nad jose,
I tried to use this on the moodle but it gives the same error..keep searching...
What is this?? can you please help me ??
I tried to use this on the moodle but it gives the same error..keep searching...
What is this?? can you please help me ??
Hi Asanga,
Keep searching is not an error. It is an option to go to the previous screen and Keep searching students to sent them a sms.
Regards.
Keep searching is not an error. It is an option to go to the previous screen and Keep searching students to sent them a sms.
Regards.
Borja, vuelve a darme el error: Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students
Tras el mensaje no carga nada más. Acabo de hacer una actualización de Exabis-Eportfolio que en su novedad "views" utiliza ajax y javascript. No sé si pudiera haber algún tipo de relación. Gracias por tu ayuda. Saludos.
Hola Jose Angel,
antes que nada comentarte que estos mensaje deberían ir en el foro en Español, puesto que este es de inglés.
Y con respecto a lo que comentas, lo de Keep searching no es un error, sino un enlace para seguir seleccionando usuarios a los que mandar el SMS. Por otro lado, para localizar el error se me ocurren dos preguntas:
antes que nada comentarte que estos mensaje deberían ir en el foro en Español, puesto que este es de inglés.
Y con respecto a lo que comentas, lo de Keep searching no es un error, sino un enlace para seguir seleccionando usuarios a los que mandar el SMS. Por otro lado, para localizar el error se me ocurren dos preguntas:
- Cuando aparece lo de Keep searching y nada más, ¿seleccionaste usuarios previamente en la página anterior?
- Cuando dices que no aparece nada más, ¿tampoco aparece el pie de página típico de Moodle?
Hi Rubio,
I am using your block at my moodle website.. I configured your sending_sms block using my account at dinahosting...but its not working.. Actually I am not able to figure out how to proceed further... I am getting the above message "keep searching...blah blah" on my sccreen.. after that how do I proceed to write the sms and finally send it to the selected users.....
Please help me out.. any kind of help will be truly appreciated..
Regards,
Abhishek
I am using your block at my moodle website.. I configured your sending_sms block using my account at dinahosting...but its not working.. Actually I am not able to figure out how to proceed further... I am getting the above message "keep searching...blah blah" on my sccreen.. after that how do I proceed to write the sms and finally send it to the selected users.....
Please help me out.. any kind of help will be truly appreciated..
Regards,
Abhishek
Hola Borja,
Please help me as soon as possible...I need to set it up for my college...
I have attached the screen shot of the message which I am getting after selecting the users..
I have selected the users on the previous screen...still its asking me to select the users..
If possible please let me know where I am going wrong...
Please help me as soon as possible...I need to set it up for my college...
I have attached the screen shot of the message which I am getting after selecting the users..
I have selected the users on the previous screen...still its asking me to select the users..
If possible please let me know where I am going wrong...
Hi Abishek,
the message "keep searching...blah blah" is not an error, it allows you to select more users before sending the sms.
Regards,
Borja.
the message "keep searching...blah blah" is not an error, it allows you to select more users before sending the sms.
Regards,
Borja.
Hi Borja,
Thanks a lot for responding to my doubt..
I agree with you that it is not an error.. Actually it says "Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students"..
But i cant see any form on the page.. also when i click on "keep searching" link it goes back to the previous screen(i know this is what it is supposed to do) but after this again i get the same page saying "Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students"...and as i told already there is no form on the page to be seen...because of which i cant send any messages...
So this is like an infinite loop which is not allowing me to proceed further...
I request you to take some of your time and please help me in this matter.. i ll be really grateful to you.
Thanks & Regards,
Abhishek
Thanks a lot for responding to my doubt..
I agree with you that it is not an error.. Actually it says "Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students"..
But i cant see any form on the page.. also when i click on "keep searching" link it goes back to the previous screen(i know this is what it is supposed to do) but after this again i get the same page saying "Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students"...and as i told already there is no form on the page to be seen...because of which i cant send any messages...
So this is like an infinite loop which is not allowing me to proceed further...
I request you to take some of your time and please help me in this matter.. i ll be really grateful to you.
Thanks & Regards,
Abhishek
Hi Abishek,
If you don't select any student form does not appear. And if you have select some students in the previous page and anyway the form does not appear: could you enable debugging and tell me what errors appears?
Regards,
Borja.
If you don't select any student form does not appear. And if you have select some students in the previous page and anyway the form does not appear: could you enable debugging and tell me what errors appears?
Regards,
Borja.
Hi Borja,
I enabled the debugging and after that I selected the students and clicked on the send button after that i got the same message saying "Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students".. also page displayed the following error "Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs\moodle\blocks\sending_sms\providers\dinahosting\smsSender.inc.php on line 295" ..
hope I have included all the information required by you to debug... If I need to do anything else please let me know...
(I've also attached the page)
Thanks & Regards,
Abhishek
I enabled the debugging and after that I selected the students and clicked on the send button after that i got the same message saying "Keep searching, or use the form below to send a SMS to the selected students".. also page displayed the following error "Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs\moodle\blocks\sending_sms\providers\dinahosting\smsSender.inc.php on line 295" ..
hope I have included all the information required by you to debug... If I need to do anything else please let me know...
(I've also attached the page)
Thanks & Regards,
Abhishek
Hi Borja,
Sorry I had done some changes in the smsSender.inc.php file so according to that the line number is 295.. but i reinstalled the block on without any changes the original line number on which i am getting the error is 246..
The message is "Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs\moodle\blocks\sending_sms\providers\dinahosting\smsSender.inc.php on line 246"
Thanks & Regards,
Abhishek
Sorry I had done some changes in the smsSender.inc.php file so according to that the line number is 295.. but i reinstalled the block on without any changes the original line number on which i am getting the error is 246..
The message is "Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs\moodle\blocks\sending_sms\providers\dinahosting\smsSender.inc.php on line 246"
Thanks & Regards,
Abhishek
Hi Abishek,
The error is in dinahosting library and it seems like you don't have installed PHP/CURL on Windows.
Regards.
The error is in dinahosting library and it seems like you don't have installed PHP/CURL on Windows.
Regards.
Una vez contratado:
¿cuáles son los nombres de usuario?
Atentamente
Iaenus
¿cuáles son los nombres de usuario?
Atentamente
Iaenus
Hola Iaenus,
al darte de alta en el proveedor deberían proporcionarte un nombre de usuario y contraseña. Y son ese nombre de usuario y contraseña los que debes usar.
Un saludo.
al darte de alta en el proveedor deberían proporcionarte un nombre de usuario y contraseña. Y son ese nombre de usuario y contraseña los que debes usar.
Un saludo.
This is very good with a nice interface but I'm having difficultly extending it to cover another provider. Is there an english version of the inc.php file
I suppose that you refer to smsSender.inc.php. That file was coded by the provider. And i have just look for an english version without success.
If you have a similar file of you provider (for example yourprovider.php) you should create a file sms_yourprovider.class.php extending sms.class.php file. And sms_yourprovider.class.php is the file that calls the functions in youprovider.php.
Regards.
If you have a similar file of you provider (for example yourprovider.php) you should create a file sms_yourprovider.class.php extending sms.class.php file. And sms_yourprovider.class.php is the file that calls the functions in youprovider.php.
Regards.
This is a significant development, can you please use English in your responses. Thanks.
Hola Borja,
disculpa, a ver si puedes responderme, he instalado el bloque y tengo contratado con dinahosting una cuenta, tengo los datos de usuario y contraseña.
Mi duda viene, que el bloque me aparece en el curso como "The Block is not Configured".
Por favor, podr¡as indicarme como se configura el bloque.
He comprobado que en "Modulos->Bloques->Gestion Bloques->Sending SMS" no aparece una opcion de Configuracion.
Mi version es la 1.9.2.
Gracias por tu ayuda.
Hola Salvador,
antes que nada comentarte que este mensaje hubiese sido mejor ponerlo en el foro en Español, puesto que este es de inglés.
La configuración de tu proveedor se introduce en cada instancia del bloque y no en la configuración general del bloque. De este modo puedes tener un bloque en un curso que usa una cuenta en dinahosting concreta y otro bloque en otro curso usando otra cuenta distinta.
Para ello, después de crear el bloque debes configurarlo. Fíjate que debajo del nombre del bloque aparecen unos iconos (para ocultarlo, moverlo, editarlo, ...), con el modo de edición activado por supuesto. Pués dándole al de editar (el de la mano con el lapiz) podrás introducir la información de tu proveedor.
Un saludo.
antes que nada comentarte que este mensaje hubiese sido mejor ponerlo en el foro en Español, puesto que este es de inglés.
La configuración de tu proveedor se introduce en cada instancia del bloque y no en la configuración general del bloque. De este modo puedes tener un bloque en un curso que usa una cuenta en dinahosting concreta y otro bloque en otro curso usando otra cuenta distinta.
Para ello, después de crear el bloque debes configurarlo. Fíjate que debajo del nombre del bloque aparecen unos iconos (para ocultarlo, moverlo, editarlo, ...), con el modo de edición activado por supuesto. Pués dándole al de editar (el de la mano con el lapiz) podrás introducir la información de tu proveedor.
Un saludo.
Vaya. Disculpa mi despiste. Al final funciono. Muchas gracias por tu ayuda.
Some notices reported by Fernando Robles have been fixed.
Regards.
Regards.
In reply to Borja Rubio Reyes
Modification and improvements done for the SMS block
We(Asanga and Asangi) , with the supervision of Dr. K.P. hewagamage at the Univerity of Colombo School of Computing, National e-learning centre(NeLC) used this sms block and did some modifications and corrected some bugs. We are using this sucessfully in the university. Anyway still it is in its testing stages. Therefore we like to share our resources and knowledge and we like to hear any suggestions for further improvemnt. The following describes some of the improvemnts we have done to the sms block.
- This module didn't work properly in our moodle instance 1.9.2+ (Build: 20080924),We did some modification in sms.php file and now it properly works.
- The sent sms messages will be added to the respective news formus of the cources.
- The sent messages are now stored in the database and is displayed under sent messages link in the sms block
- If the user wishes to delete the sent messages he could do so.
- The users who receive the sms could reply back to the server according to a given format, where the messages are filtered properly and sent to the respective sms forums. Therefore the other users could alos see the replies.
- Now the sms list shows no of people who are having proper mobile numbers for a given cource.
- The mobile numbers are now corectly validated according to the sri lankan context. This could be easily changed by modifying the validate maobile number funtion in the sms.php file.
In reply to Asanga Wickramasinghe
Re: Modification and improvements done for the SMS block
by Borja Rubio Reyes -
Hi Asanga,
Fantastic. Is the code available to download?
Only a thing, the original block already store sent messages in database, in table sending_sms (with sender, recipients, text and time fields). But the original block has not interface to show them
.
Regards.
Fantastic. Is the code available to download?
Only a thing, the original block already store sent messages in database, in table sending_sms (with sender, recipients, text and time fields). But the original block has not interface to show them
.Regards.
In reply to Borja Rubio Reyes
Re: Modification and improvements done for the SMS block
Hi Borja,
It'll be able to download shortly. I'll post the link soon. Currently we are adding a SMS poll to that block. After testing we'll post the link.
Regards,
Asanga
It'll be able to download shortly. I'll post the link soon. Currently we are adding a SMS poll to that block. After testing we'll post the link.
Regards,
Asanga
In reply to Asanga Wickramasinghe
Re: Modification and improvements done for the SMS block
Hi all,
Now you can get the block form our gForge from the following url
http://192.248.16.96/gf/project/smssendingblock/
Asanga
Now you can get the block form our gForge from the following url
http://192.248.16.96/gf/project/smssendingblock/
Asanga
Saludos Borja,
Queremos usar tu bloque de envio de SMS. Por favor ¿ Podrías indicarme que debo hacer para instalarlo ? lo bajé y no encontré ningún archivo que explique la instalación.
Tenemos el Moodle versión 1.8.2 y queremos usar el sending_sms.zip que es para la versión 1.6 por lo que ¿ Podríamos instalarlo tal cual en nuestra versión 1.8.2 ? o ¿ Qué líneas de código editamos en nuestros archivos v1.8.2 ? ¿ Cómo le hacemos ?
Queremos saber hacer bien la parte de conectividad a la empresa de telefonía celular (por ejemplo en México con TELCEL con su servicio de SMS).
Gracias de antemano y espero nos puedas apoyar con esto.
SALUDOS
Carlos Felipe García Hernández
MEXICO
Carolos - It sounds like there are a couple of similar projects going. One seems to be located at:
http://192.248.16.96/gf/project/smssendingblock/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2F
and another is related to CONTRIB-1700.
(me parece que hay dos proyectos semejantes, pero sospecho que buscas el primero).
Peace/Paz - Antonio
http://192.248.16.96/gf/project/smssendingblock/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2F
and another is related to CONTRIB-1700.
(me parece que hay dos proyectos semejantes, pero sospecho que buscas el primero).
Peace/Paz - Antonio
hi
if i want to configure this block to some other sms gateways
what are the different files and changes i need to do......
hoping for an reply .
thx in advance
if i want to configure this block to some other sms gateways
what are the different files and changes i need to do......
hoping for an reply .
thx in advance
You need add the API of your Providers. For example, here you have two API (Providers: dinahosting and incotel).
hii
i wish to use this module. Can we use the free messaging websites as service provider like way2sms.com
if so how.
i wish to use this module. Can we use the free messaging websites as service provider like way2sms.com
if so how.
Hi Vineet,
If your service provider gives you an api, then you can use that provider by extending a block class according to providers/readme.txt file in the block.
Regards.
If your service provider gives you an api, then you can use that provider by extending a block class according to providers/readme.txt file in the block.
Regards.
Since I am a neewie, I'm probably doing something wrong... but I do not know what to do!!!
I put the SMS folder inside Block folder.
But when checking block list, this one does not appear in the list!!!
I've read in this thread, I should configure SMS block in a instantce, not in general block configuration. I'm very sorry but I do not undestantd as well.
(I'm used to work with Zikula, but this CMS is not alike)
What should I do? Thanks
Hi Francesc,
To finish a block installation you must click Notifications in Site Adminsitration block after putting the block in moodle/blocks/ folder. And if you have done so, then probably the folder moodle/blocks/sendig_sms permissions are wrong.
Regards,
Borja.
To finish a block installation you must click Notifications in Site Adminsitration block after putting the block in moodle/blocks/ folder. And if you have done so, then probably the folder moodle/blocks/sendig_sms permissions are wrong.
Regards,
Borja.
Hello,
I would like to use this modul with sipgate. Could anybody tell me how to do this, please?
Regards,
Jenny
I would like to use this modul with sipgate. Could anybody tell me how to do this, please?
Regards,
Jenny
Hi Jenny,
excuse me for my late answer but i was on holidays. If sipgate service provider gives you an api, then you can use that provider by extending a block class according to providers/readme.txt file in the block.
Regards.
excuse me for my late answer but i was on holidays. If sipgate service provider gives you an api, then you can use that provider by extending a block class according to providers/readme.txt file in the block.
Regards.
Thank you, Great block!
If someone has writtern a file 'smsSender.inc.php' for ovh.com or another provider will be a good idea to share them
Dear colleges!
After long attemts this block work fantastic good. Please, use it in any countries (not +34 only). Big thanks for help to Alex Novikov, http://smsc.ru.
Hi Jury,
I want to add this block inn my moodle site which is 2.2.1. Can I install in this version? I have a questions: What do you refer when you wrote: use it in any countries (not +34 only) ? I live in Peru and here the code is 51
Best Regards,
Martin