"H. Carter Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [please don't top post]
> How does one get the ability to email using PHP? I can't email out of > ASP, I have to call a component to get that service; either CDONTS or > Dundas or one of several others. These components act like mini mail > servers, format an email and then forward it to the mail server of your > choice. either use the build-in mail() function, or just open a socket to the mail server yourself and implement the mail session into your script manually (or check the web to see if some one done it for you already, which seems highly likely). docs are online at www.php.net and/or on your server after you've installed php. > I was ready to code in Perl because I can have access to MySQL there; > another requirement. But I assume that PHP will access a database. it will if you tell it to do so ;-)
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