I'm making a mobile product for a social network and one of the features we would like to add is text-to-status. We are doing something different though, similar to YouTube's mobile upload. YouTube uses emails such as:
12598601913@m.youtube.com
I would like to something similar with PHP, except do something like this:
Have the user text:
msg@gotsi.co.cc
Then when the server receives this it will detect the phone number(for instance: 5551202109@vtext.com) saved on the account, sort of like how Facebook/Twitter work with their shortcodes.
I have been researching this for about 3-4 months and nothing has really come up with much of anything. If anyone can help it would be wonderful. Just a side-note, I am not very fluent in any server-side coding other than php and server-side Javascript.