Thanks, I'd assumed #1 was the only option, but #2 sounds interesting. Do you have any pointers on how to set up the email account? I don't know whether it'll be possible using shared hosting.
Regarding #1, do you have any pointers for the script? I have no idea how to programatically access an email account. L On Feb 19, 10:17 am, Adam Royle <[email protected]> wrote: > Depends on your server setup. Two solutions: > > 1. Write a script that is called periodically through cron that checks > an email mailbox for new messages. > 2. Setup your email account to pipe to a script instead of to a mailbox. > > I have used #2 and it works well because the script only runs when it > needs to. > > Either way, once you get the email content you'll need to parse it > somehow to find the relevant content. I've used the mailparse php > extension and it works pretty well. > > Cheers, > Adam > > leo wrote: > > I'm looking at updating a blog by email - a la blogger& wordpress. > > > Anybody have any ideas about how to go about this? > > > Last time I thought about it I found some protocols and stuff through > > google, but google seems these days do be a bit chaffy and I can't > > remember what the protocol was. > > > Anyway, it seems to me that protocol isn't important, it's how to get > > at the email from the blog script. > > > Anyone? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
