I should correct myself. The .htaccess file doesn't overwrite the php.ini
value, rather it overrides it.
Ethan Schroeder
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Christian Dechery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
> I don't know how you can find sendmail on that system if you don't have
> telnet access. Try writing a script that does an exec("which sendmail")
and
> see if it tells you. I doubt it will, though. Otherwise try different
> sendmail locations: /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail, etc. The
> .htacess file overwrites the value of the php.ini file, so you can specify
> to php where sendmail is for any script that is under the directory your
> .htaccess file resides in (unless they don't allow .htaccess). I've had
to
> use this approach a couple times to get php to send mail off properly.
>
> Ethan Schroeder
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Dechery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ethan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] need some ideas here...
>
>
> > what??? I didn't understand... how will I find out where sendmail is in
a
> > free-web-host? I don't have telnet access... how can I figure that out?
> and
> > how a .htaccess file would help me here?
> >
> > At 19:50 14/5/2001 -0500, Ethan Schroeder wrote:
> > >Find where there sendmail is and put this in an .htaccess file:
php_value
> > >sendmail_path '/path/to/sendmail -t'
> > >
> > >Ethan Schroeder
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Christian Dechery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:04 PM
> > >Subject: [PHP] need some ideas here...
> > >
> > >
> > > > My free-web-hosting (www.f2s.com) does not allow PHP to send
emails...
> > >I've
> > > > tried everything... the mail() function, my alternate function which
> calls
> > > > popen("/usr/lib/sendmail -t") and even a script.cgi with
> '#!/usr/bin/php'
> > > > and all that stuff...
> > > >
> > > > the mail simply won't go an mail() always returns false...
> > > > I'm guessing there's no mail sending in this server...
> > > >
> > > > so what do I do?
> > > >
> > > > is it possible for me to call a script on another host from with a
> script
> > > > and return something to it?
> > > >
> > > > like
> > > > <?php
> > > > code ... code ... code...;
> > > > code ... code ... code...;
> > > >
> > > > here I'd have some code to call a script in another host that can
send
> > > > mails, of course with the necessary parms...;
> > > >
> > > > code code code....;
> > > > code code code....;
> > > > ?>
> > > > ____________________________
> > > > . Christian Dechery (lemming)
> > > > . http://www.tanamesa.com.br
> > > > . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer
> > > >
> > > >
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