In this new tutorial on LearnComputer.com, they show you how to, using a simple call to PHP's mail function, you can send a text message to anyone.

Text messaging seems more convenient than making phone calls and creating your own PHP script to send these messages is a very easy thing to set up. Get on board with these other companies that have found how convenient text messages are for their customer and start integrating text messaging into your PHP applications. In this article, I will show you two ways to accomplish this and you will be surprised at how simple this is to do.

Once you've found the right email address for the provider, sending the message is pretty simple using mail. As an alternative, they recommend a service like TextMagic to send the messages. It's a bit more reliable and uses SMS instead of email to get your message out.

On the Cats Who Code site today there's a new tutorial showing how to send SMS messages from your PHP application with the help of the TextMagic service.

Over the years, Short message service (SMS) has become a very important way of communication, and many businesses are looking for easy ways to send automated text messages to their customers. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how you can send SMS using PHP and a third party service called TextMagic. Its very easy to do!

They step you through the process - creating a TextMagic account, configuring the account with your own password and creating a simple script that includes their own API library and sends the SMS request.