side scripting from scratch, side scripting and CGI where to start from? Options

[elvisforson]

where do i start from. i need my website to be able to have information updated via SMS by a few 'authorised people' then i others can access the information via 2-ways sms technology. please look at the following correspondence and show me how i can start .....



i am working on an SMS to web page project and asked my smsRc how i can link the software to my webpage to get information and diliver information (I guess this is the POST and GET Funtionality): immediately below is his answer, following is the original message i sent him , he further advised me to get in touch with side scripting expert.

if your version of SmsRc already provides the "HTTP query" action type,
you may use it to redirect incoming messages to a server-side script
that may update the website content accordingly. By saving the server's
response to a variable, you may use it in the reply sent back to
[%Sender%].

As this task requires some amount of server-side scripting anyway, I
recommend to delegate all "message-processing logic" to server-side
scripts, using SmsRc only as a gateway between your website and your GSM
phone (or clickatell).
your version of SmsRc already provides the "HTTP query" action type,
you may use it to redirect incoming messages to a server-side script
that may update the website content accordingly. By saving the server's
response to a variable, you may use it in the reply sent back to
[%Sender%].

As this task requires some amount of server-side scripting anyway, I
recommend to delegate all "message-processing logic" to server-side
scripts, using SmsRc only as a gateway between your website and your GSM
phone (or clickatell).

[Darin McGrew]

I moved this thread from the Client-side Scripting forum to the Server-side Scripting forum.

There is more information about SMS Reception Center here:
http://sw4me.com/wiki/SMSReceptionCenter

[Brian Chandler]

First problem: "side scripting" is meaningless. "server-side" just means "on the server" as opposed to "client-side" which means "on the client (browser)".

Do you have programming experience? If your smsRc (whatever that is) can send standard http requests to a web address, then you just write a script on the http server that accepts them, and carries out the required operations. You need to know something about organising the database system this will use.

Otherwise your question is just too broad, unless you are looking for a programmer you can hire to do the job.