The Message Manager sits between a message source (such as an SMS gateway) and a FixMyStreet-like application. It accepts incoming messages, and makes them available to nominated users on the FMS system.
FixMyStreet is mySociety's award-winning problem-reporting software -- it runs the UK's most-used problem reporting site at www.fixmystreet.com but the platform is available as Open Source to power similar projects worldwide.
There's a collection of most-likely problems and fixes in documentation/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
The Message Manager is a PHP application in the Cake framework. It needs to run under a webserver (Apache is ideal) and connect to a database (such as mySql or Postgres).
If you're using the Netcast SMS gateway (as mySociety does for the FixMyStreet
project), you'll need the PHP nusoap library.
The example implementation of the JSON API (see Dummy Client, below) uses jQuery.
See documentation/installation.md for installation and set-up instructions.
mySociety's Message Manager was created as an addition to the FixMyStreet platform as part of a project funded by the World Bank. See code.fixmystreet.com for more information about the platform.
Note that this is, as of June 2012, a work in progress! See the github-repo for code and outstanding issues.
mySociety's Message Manager is released under the GNU Affero General Public License. See the accompanying LICENSE file.
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mySociety is an e-democracy project of the UK-based registered charity named UK Citizens Online Democracy. Our mission is to help people become more powerful in the civic and democratic parts of their lives, through digital means.
Email us at hello@mysociety.org or talk to us on our irc server.