Moblogging script SIMSI

The Simsi is a moblog script written in PHP and developed by Marc Rohlfing at www.rowlff.de/simsi/

It came in handy for me when I was completing a master’s thesis at DCU. For part of our project we needed to parse incoming email and MMS mobile phone messages and extract the contents and attachments. This user generated content we received from the 3G mobiles phones (sponsored by 3Ireland, thanks!) would subsequently create a presentation. a dynamic story board of user experience of you will. The SIMSI moblog code helped us to understand how to achieve this collection part of the project.

While working with the script I added support for 3GPP mobile video and fixed some email date formatting issue.

Unfortunately I did not hear back from Marc Rohlfing , the original author of the script when I tried to contact him via email. Recently the link to http://www.rowlff.de/simsi went dead.

So I’m putting this up here as there may be others out may benefit from it as we did.

Short description

It’s a blog script an you can update by sending email/MMS messages from your phone(or not) to your email address.

Long Description

You send email/MMS messages containing text/images/video from your phone to a designated email address.

The moblog script will open that mailbox, extract the messages and save the attachments. The messages and attachments save saved into an xml file and a webpages containing the messages is presented in the browser.

Install

Extract and copy the directory containing the script to your webserver.
Download

Configure

In the index.php set following:

$MAIL_SERVER = “mail_server_here”;
$MAIL_USERNAME = “your_email_username”;
$MAIL_PASSWORD = “your_email_password”;

That’s it.

Now send a MMS to the email address. And browse to the location of the index.php

Happy moblogging!!

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