Hello Learner,
To send an SMS Notification message to the customer, you will need to know the customer's SMS Email Address. Since there are numerous wireless companies, you would either need to collect that address from them, or their Cell Phone Number, and use a service or software product that can look-up that number and find the carrier and their SMS address domain. Optionally, use one of the SMS Gateway services to send a SMS to the customer's email address.
If you collect the SMS address during Checkout, just test and use the code that I supplied above. Otherwise, you will need to look into using a SMS Gateway service or piece of custom software, such as:
Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS gateway:
http://www.kannel.org/
Upside Wireless: Developer APIs... Uses SOAP to send SMS messages directly from your web site...
http://www.upsidewireless.com/api.htm
VisualTron: VisualGSM Mobile Application Server... SQL database driven SMS Gateway / WAP Push Gateway:
http://www.visualtron.com/products.htm
View their online Demo to Send an SMS via Email using their
email2sms plugin:
http://www.visualtron.com/online_demo2.htm
SMS Tutorial: What is an SMS Gateway?
http://www.developershome.com/sms/sms_tutorial.asp?page=smsGateway
Robert