NationStates Cellphones

[Central North Americas]

I think that I have a beautiful idea. Probably brought up before but I may as well say it again:
NationStates should have text message alerts!

[The chrisman union]

Max tried doing something like that at the beginning of NS with e-mail alerts, but with 2,000 accounts to manage that became impossible. It would be even more impossible and costly to that with 500,000 accounts to manage and next to impossible with text messages.

[Central North Americas]

well couldnt there be a code that does all that for us? for example, our page gets a new issue, so it sends us a text message to [your number]

the code could look like this (and no this code will not work its just and example)

on_trigger_event(newissue),
action_name(sendsms) variable(user_phone_number)

[Central North Americas]

in fact, under the settings, if you choose a carrier of your phone and but in your phone number, you could make an easy php script to send an email to:

T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

so lets make the carrier variable "carr" and the number variable "number"
and lets make the action of sending a message "sendsms"
as the email to be "email" and the body of the email "issues"
it would look something like this:

sendsms(number,carr)
content(issues)

im no programmer but if you tried to create a code for this, it wouldnt be too hard this is just to help with the understanding of the php script

[Animal House Recruiter]

There is a phpBB plugin for RSS, no? Would that be bandwidth intensive? I'm not being snarky: I just don't know. I'm a demanding end user, not a server codemonkey.

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[Central North Americas]

yeah i think there is, but it would be very easy for a programmer to do either that or what i proposed. what im saying is, it would be possible for a programmer to program, i am just not that programmer