The "equivalent" you wrote should generally result in sending either
zero or two emails ... which is probably not what you want.
The code you're trying to grok is simply "send mail and if there's an
error, increment the error counter". A slightly more obvious way for
writing it would be:
$result = mail(...);
if (! $result){
++$err;
}
The way you re-wrote it, it says "send mail and if there's an error
increment the error counter. If there isn't an error, send the mail
a second time".
HTH
-Tim
On Oct 20, 2007, at 4:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings and Hello,
I am converting a script to use SMTP if php mail() is not available
for the users of this script. I have all the active calls working so
that if my smtp flag is set it automatically switches to smtp and
sends the message with the appropriate headers etc. but part of the
script is run by a
cron job and I see a php mail call but don't quite understand the
syntax.
Anyone care to take a guess at translating what it does?
It is part of a while loop and I think its combining two conditions
into one statement but would like confirmation.
here is the code fragment:
if ( !mail( $row['Email'], $row[Subj], $row[Body], "From: $site
[email_notify]", "-f$site[email_notify]") )
++$err;
I thinks this is the equivalent of:
if ( !mail( $row['Email'], $row[Subj], $row[Body], "From: $site
[email_notify]", "-f$site[email_notify]") )
{
++$err; //update the error queue
}
else
{
mail( $row['Email'], $row[Subj], $row[Body], "From: $site
[email_notify]", "-f$site[email_notify]");
}
Has anyone seen or used this technique before? This is the first time
I have seen it used, though this script has a lot of short cuts that
make the code difficult to debug sometimes, like this one.
Thanks in advance for your comments,
--
Best regards,
mikesz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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