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Yes of course. I have an SMS provider who provides me with a gateway where I pass all the data for SMS post.

Basically, after collecting and cleaning up all the relevant data (students' phone numbers, the text message to send) I pass it to the SMS provider via a fsocket with somethin like this:

                $qs = array();

                foreach ($smsfields as $k => $v)
                        $qs[] = $k.'='.urlencode($v);
                $qs = join('&', $qs);

                $errno = $errstr = '';
                $host='***.***.com'; // I'm hidding here the SMS provider's address
                $url='/sms/batch.php';
                if ($fp = @fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr,30))
                {
                fputs($fp, "POST ".$url." HTTP/1.0\r\n");
                fputs($fp, "Host: ".$host."\r\n");
                fputs($fp, "User-Agent: PHP/".phpversion()."\r\n");
                fputs($fp,"Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n")
                fputs($fp, "Content-Length: ".strlen($qs)."\r\n");
                fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n");
                fputs($fp, "\r\n".$qs);

                $content = '';
                while (!feof($fp))
                        $content .= fgets($fp, 1024);

                fclose($fp);

                print "<br><br><b>SMS status: " .  preg_replace("/^.*?\r\n\r\n/s", '', $content) . "</b>";
                }

If you need me to comment more on this, let me know.

Cheers.

Hi Sarah,

Now it's me who's late in answering.

If you're still interested, the above code worked for Moodle 1.5, but with few little adaptations, including the hook with the new 1.7+ role-based permission system, it runs (happily) on 1.8 and 1.9.

If you’re still interested, I can provide more information.

Regards.