Sending text messages

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I will preface this as I do most posts, I am not a developer / programmer. We have a CF10 server for our department intranet.

We need to be able to notify a small group of people (less than 100) at once, and thought it would be best to use text messaging.

I tried searching for examples of sending text messages using CF, I found a great article from Ben Nadel from 2007 but that was using mail to forward to the text message service.

I was hoping to find an example of testing that I could modify to suit us.

Is anyone aware of a sample text page I could modify?

Thanks

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WolfShade

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I'd be real careful about using WhatsApp. Owned by Facebook. It does have e2e encryption, but the backups are stored in cleartext. And various other security issues. Here's an article from DEC 2019:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-security-threats-whatsapp-users-need-know/

The link says four security threats, but five are listed in the article.

HTH,

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BKBK

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There is an easier way that requires zero coding and that works on Mac and Windows: WhatsApp! 🙂

Create a WhatsApp group that includes all the telephone numbers you wish to send messages to.
Install the above WhatsApp application on your Mac or Windows server, performing the QR scan at the end, and voilà!

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WolfShade

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This link should be helpful. It does not state what versions of CF has it, but it's the documentation for using SMS in CF Server.

https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/developing-applications/using-external-resources/using-the-sms-event-gateway/about-sms-and-coldfusion.html

There's also this SO link that might help.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41552949/sending-receiving-sms-using-coldfusion

HTH,

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