FrontlineSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal.

External Commands

Am on project where frontlinesms will recieve a name of a country (being
a keyword) and call external program which i have already designed
that will look up to a database server running locally on my system and
retrieve few info about that country and send back to a phone.
Example

NIGERIA

Independent 1960:
Continent: Africa

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Permalink Reply by kiwanja on July 30, 2010 at 9:22am

Hi Amaefula

Thanks for posting this - sounds very interesting.

Is there a question anywhere here, or are you just telling us what you're doing?

Thanks!

Ken

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Permalink Reply by Amaefula Chukwuebuka on July 30, 2010 at 11:00am

Oh! forgot.....
I have been able to use external commands.

1.How can i realy make frontlinesms interact with my database i set using Setting>Database setting from the menu bar.
2.How can i get the message content and use it in my external command(HTTP request)

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Permalink Reply by Morgan Belkadi on July 30, 2010 at 11:11am

Hello,

1. Just put the right MySQL settings in the database settings dialog, and restart FrontlineSMS.
2. Open the External Command dialog, and include the message content by clicking on it.

Morgan