why bother, i use available good library
http://swiftmailer.org/
On 10/6/09, Jim Lucas <li...@cmsws.com> wrote:
> Eddie Drapkin wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Jim Lucas <li...@cmsws.com> wrote:
>>> Here is a problem that I have had for years now. I have been trying to
>>> come up
>>> with the perfect solution for this problem. But, I have come down to two
>>> different methods for solving it.
>>>
>>> Here is the problem...
>>>
>>> <?php
>>>
>>> function sendEmail(
>>> $to,
>>> $from,
>>> $subject,
>>> $body,
>>> $attachments=array(),
>>> $headers=array()
>>> ) { # I typically do not put each argument on seperate lines, but I
>>> ran
>>> #out of width in this email...
>>>
>>> # do something here...
>>> mail(...);
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> sendEmail('j...@doe.com',
>>> 'maryk...@uhhh.net',
>>> 'Hi!',
>>> 'Check out my new pictures!!!',
>>> $hash_array_of_pictures
>>> );
>>>
>>> Now, we all have a function or method like this floating around
>>> somewhere.
>>>
>>> My question is, how do YOU go about setting the required entries of the
>>> $headers
>>> array() ?
>>>
>>> I see three possible solutions. I want to see a clean and simple
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> Here are my ideas so far:
>>>
>>> function sendEmail(
>>> $to,
>>> $from,
>>> $subject,
>>> $body,
>>> $attachments=array(),
>>> $headers=array()
>>> ) { # I typically do not put each argument on seperate lines, but I
>>> ran
>>> #out of width in this email...
>>>
>>> if ( empty($headers['Date']) ) {
>>> $headers['Date'] = date('c');
>>> }
>>> if ( empty($headers['Message-ID']) ) {
>>> $headers['Date'] = md5($to.$subject);
>>> }
>>> # and the example goes on...
>>>
>>> # do something here...
>>> mail(...);
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> Or, another example. (I will keep it to the guts of the solution now)
>>>
>>> $headers['Date'] = empty($headers['Date']) ?
>>> date('c') : $headers['Date'];
>>> $headers['Message-ID'] = empty($headers['Message-ID']) ?
>>> md5($to.$subject) : $headers['Message-ID'];
>>>
>>> OR, yet another example...
>>>
>>> $defaults = array(
>>> 'Date' => date('c'),
>>> 'Message-ID' => md5($to.$subject),
>>> );
>>>
>>> $headers += $defaults;
>>>
>>> END of examples...
>>>
>>> Now, IMO, the last one is the simplest one and for me, I think it will be
>>> the
>>> new way that I solve this type of problem.
>>>
>>> But, my question that I put out to all of you is...
>>>
>>> How would you solve this problem?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Jim Lucas
>>>
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>>
>> How does this look to you?
>>
>> function sendEmail(
>> $to,
>> $from,
>> $subject,
>> $body,
>> $attachments=array(),
>> $headers=array()
>> ) {
>> # I typically do not put each argument on seperate lines, but I ran
>> #out of width in this email...
>>
>> $default_headers = array(
>> 'Date' => date('c'),
>> 'Message-ID' => md5($to.$subject)
>> );
>>
>> $headers = array_merge($default_headers, $headers);
>> # and the example goes on...
>>
>> # do something here...
>> mail(...);
>>
>> }
>>
>
> Good, since it is a combination of the examples I gave.
>
> I am looking at how you would solve the problem. Unless this is the way you
> would solve the
> problem.. :-D
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Jim Lucas
>
> "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
> and some have greatness thrust upon them."
>
> Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
> by William Shakespeare
>
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