Wow, thanks! A nice detailed reply that should keep me busy for a good few hours
All the best Ade > -----Original Message----- > From: John S. Huggins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 June 2003 23:02 > To: Adrian Teasdale > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] piping email directly into PHP > > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Adrian Teasdale wrote: > > >-Hi there > >- > >-We are wanting to create a little help/crm tool for internal > use. Rather > >-than reading (and parsing) in an email from a pop account, is it now > >-possible to pipe email in directly to a database via PHP? If so, any > >-pointers on how to do it and anything to watch out for? > > You might get good clues by examining the phorummail.php file in the > Phorum.org forum script in their scripts directory of their tarball. > > http://www.phorum.org/ > > As I recall, it is meant to be passed email messages via .forward or > something like that. It then looks at the mail contents and deals with it > accordingly. Phorum is a MySQL thing so I assume they write the data to > the database. > > Note that this file is meant to run like a typical shell script with this > in the first line: > > #!/usr/local/bin/php -q > > Thus, you must have a compiled php executable in /usr/local/bin or > whereever you keep your favorite programs. > > Just compile PHP with no parameters in ./configure and it should make a > php binary perfect for use as a shell program tool. > > The "-q" turns off header generation I think making php a very suitable > progamming language. > > Good luck. > > > >- > >-Thanks in advance > >- > >-Ade > >- > >- > >--- > >-PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >-To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >- > > ************************************** > > John Huggins > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.phphosts.com/ > > ************************************** > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
