You can find several free services that enable you to post content on the internet via an SMS message. However, you need to register to use them for free, and you must allow the insertion of advertising banners. You send an SMS message from a mobile phone to a specific number and then your web page refreshes with the content of the SMS message.

Markus Fraikin provided the sourcecode for FREE. There are 2 versions listed on this page, one controlled access version and a second version we modified to allow posting by anyone. To run the program you need the following:

• Web Hosting Account which runs PHP scripts(most hosting services support php), and
• POP3 Mailbox - emails to this mailbox are posted to the web

If you want to update your web page, just send an SMS message as email to the installed email address. It is possible in every wireless network to send a short message as an email. Please ask your mobile phone provider, how it works on your network.

Every time the PHP script is called it checks the POP3 mailbox and lists all emails in a table. Date, time and body of the messages are listed on the public version it also lists a portion of the sender's email address. The ticker refreshes in a customizable interval.

On the controlled access version, in a configuration file you have to declare the email addresses, from which the liveticker may be updated. Additionally it is possible to declare a password that has to be the first word of every email. Furthermore you can define an end word, so every text after this endword is cut and not visible in the ticker.

On an admin page you can see even the senders and complete bodies of the emails. You can delete messages as well.

  Controlled Access Version - This version limits postings to only authorized senders (email addresses) that you select. Download all files in one zip file .

  Public Access Version - This version allows anyone to post a message. Download all files in one zip file .

If you want to see how it works you can test the public version at can www.send2web.com.

• On the Configuration page set the first variable $notls = "1", or
• Try Configuring an alternate POP3 email account