"Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I want to pipe, say an incoming email to a PHP script (assuming I > have php compiled as a cgi binary), how do I deal with when it needs to > receive the stream of data, how to figure out when there is no more > coming before it actually start to parse the information?
$fp = fopen( 'php://stdin', 'r' ); Then treat as if its a normal file. There's nothing special to do. > And how do people deal with multiple requests and such? There may > be cases where there could be more than one email incoming at the same > time...while theoretically the MTA only passes them one by one to > whatever's next in line (whether it's procmail, or any other type of > program) I don't think you'll have a problem. Each call to the program should run as a separate process. If I'm missing something post some more info. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
