Thanks for Philip and everyone's help.

I got it to work by compiling the PHP CGI version and
did in the .qmail:

|usr/local/bin/php -q script

Thanks a bunch!


--- Philip Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, PHP Webmaster wrote:
> 
> > the .qmail makes a program delivery to a PHP
> script at
> > http://www.mydomain.com/parser.php which then
> stores
> > the message in a database. The PHP installation is
> as
> > an Apache module so I think I might have to use
> Lynx.
> >
> > So here is something I've come up with:
> >
> > |/usr/bin/lynx -source
> > "http://mydomain.com/parser.php";
> 
> That won't work exactly as is, since you need lynx
> to send the contents of
> standard input to the PHP script as POST data. "man
> lynx" shows the
> following option:
> 
>        -post_data
>               send  form  data  from  stdin using
> POST method and
>               dump results.
> 
> So try putting -post_data in the lynx command.
> 
> A more correct way of doing this would be to run php
> from the command
> line. Try typing locate php | grep "/php$" to see if
> a PHP executable is
> available on your system. If not, you can compile
> one by downloading PHP
> from php.net, doing "./configure" (don't include any
> options in
> ./configure), then "make" (don't do "make install"),
> and just copy the
> "php" executable that it creates to whereever you
> need it.
> 
> If you go with the PHP executable, you would put in
> your .qmail file:
> 
> |/path/to/php -q /path/to/script.php
> 
> (-q tells it not to send HTML headers.)
> 


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