I am interested as to why no one seems to be using the DBI/DBD-MySQL
perl modules?
Something like:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use DBI;
my $dbname = 'DBI:$driver:database=database;host=dbserver.blah.com';
my $dbuser = 'dbusername';
my $dbpass = 'dbuserpass';
my $dbd = 'mysql';
my @mailbody;
my $subject;
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dbname,$dbuser,$dbpass,$dbd) || die "Unable to
connect to database. $DBI::errstr.\n";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select x,y,z from table where blah order by x")
|| die "cannot prepare select. $DBI::errstr.\n";
$sth->execute || die "cannot execute select. $DBI::errstr.\n";
while(my($x,$y,$z) = $sth->fetchrow_array)
{
....
build up a body of a mail with something like
push @mailbody,"$x is $y of $z";
....
}
$sth->finish;
<other stuff you might want to do>
open(MAIL,"|sendmail $recipients") || die "cannot open sendmail\n";
print MAIL "To: $recipients\n";
print MAIL "From: My_Script\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL @mailbody;
print MAIL ".\n";
close MAIL;
(obviously you could have used Net::SMTP here, or qmail-inject)
$dbh->disconnect;
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Cheers,
Karl
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Braithwaite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12 February 2003 17:19
To: 'Dan Tappin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Generating an automatic e-mail via MySQL
I use perl for this.....
Something like this:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Base64;
use Mail::Sendmail 0.77;
$email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
$subject = 'some stuff here';
$entire_msg = `/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -H -e 'some query here'
somedatabase`; $mail_result = mail_out($email, $subject , $entire_msg);
sub mail_out {
local ($to,$sub,$msg) = @_;
local(%mail) = (
SMTP => $smtp_server,
from => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
to => $to,
subject => $sub,
Message => $msg
);
$mail{'Content-type'} = 'text/html';
$mail{'Return-path'} = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
return sendmail(%mail);
}
## Disclaimer: this code is meant as a guide only. No responsibility
will be assumed by author if it fails to compile, breaks, or blows up
your server etc.. having said that it should work :)
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A
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Tappin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12 February 2003 16:37
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Generating an automatic e-mail via MySQL
Does any one have a suggestion on running a daily / weekly e-mail
notification based on results from a MySQL query?
I have a table with date sensitive rows. The idea that as rows become
stale (they were created / updated more than a week or month ago) the
owner of the row is sent an e-mail with a summary of the stale items or
even just a link back to a web page for updating.
The e-mail addresses would come from a related 'user' table. The stale
data table would have the 'user' id in a column for a JOIN statement.
I have a feeling that I will get a few 'buy a PERL book' suggestions
which is fine but I am wondering if there is another method. The same
server is running Apache and PHP. Could I run this from the command
line using PHP?
In the end I would just like a simple CRON script that runs each day to
send the notifications.
Any first thoughts?
Thanks,
Dan
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