> Hi I am new to cold fusion and am currently starting a > university project, I need to create a shopping cart which > will send an sms/mms message witha conformation > number/barcode to a users mobile phone when they purchase an > item. Was thinking of doing it with XML but unsure how to > start, how to go about it? Any ideas guys?
SMS+CF+WAP+XML? It's alphabet soup time! SMS has nothing to do with XML or WAP/WML. You use SMS for pushing text messages, and you use WML to create the cellphone equivalent, roughly, of an HTML page. WAP is the cellphone analog of HTTP, more or less. WML is an XML language, that lets you present a set of related pages within a single document - in WML-speak, the document is called a "deck", and each page is a "card". WML development is quite painful and annoying, and I'd recommend that you avoid it if you can. In fact, I'd even recommend that you forget it exists. It's that painful. Anyway, fortunately for you, you don't need to mess with WAP/WML if you just want to send an SMS message. CF 7 provides an async gateway which can send SMS messages when properly configured. You can also often send SMTP mail to SMS gateways, although for an e-commerce app I'd go with the former. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256273 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
