I've written another mail function to deal with one of our ISP clients' needs. I don't know if the functionality is found elsewhere - nowhere in the documentation that I have seen, though.
The standard mail function is mail( to, subject, message, optional-headers ) The client had two issues. First is not a big deal, they had a file to send but mail() wants a string for the body. A file can be read into a string, so that's not major, but still it'd be nice to be able to read the content from a file, especially when the content is large. Second issue was more critical. We need for the user to coerce their identity for sendmail using "-f", but there's no way to pass additional parameters to the mailer with mail(). The php.ini is sitewide and the users need to submit different values for "-f". I've written and done preliminary testing for a function mailfx( to, subject, filename, optional-headers, optional-parameters ) where "mailfx" means "mail from file, extended". The optional parameters are appended to the mailer path before the mailer is invoked, so that allows "-f username" for sendmail. The length of the mailer path plus the parameters is verified not to exceed the length of the buffer used to do this. The optional headers are used as with mail(). The filename replaces the string. Now, the file is checked and opened (code ripped off from ext/standard/file.c), and the contents are read in and written to the mailer. The version I have works on Unix. I've left the relevant ifdef WIN32's in place for a Windows person to complete the Windows version (since I won't assume parameters are handled the same on Windows.) Hopefully not much work there. Having the parameter version read a file and the normal version use a string is a little awkward, maybe a better thing to do is make an extended function that provides a flag to indicate if the source is a file or a string. Yet another argument... Anyway, this thing works for me as an integral part of PHP4 - I used the code of php-4.0.3pl1 to do this. Something like this would be generally useful. If PHP core team is interested, let me know what I need to submit for review for possible inclusion. -ecsd -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
