[PHP] Update database via email
I am working on a site that I would like to be able to update content (basically news stories) on via email. I am sitting with the problem trying to figure out the best way to do this before I start coding. I am curious if anyone else has done this and has a list of lessons learned that they would be willing to share. Also is there any code available that does this kind of thing. Thanks in advance, -Jaxn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Update database via email
If you want an html form in an email, that's possible, but the form will probably need to submit to a php script (via http, not email). You would just need to set the content-type of the email to text/html. You wouldn't be able to have an active php script embedded in an email (other than having it called via http). -Original Message- From: Jackson Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Update database via email I am working on a site that I would like to be able to update content (basically news stories) on via email. I am sitting with the problem trying to figure out the best way to do this before I start coding. I am curious if anyone else has done this and has a list of lessons learned that they would be willing to share. Also is there any code available that does this kind of thing. Thanks in advance, -Jaxn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Update database via email
If I were you, I would start looking into procmail. http://www.procmail.org You would set up an alias on your server... Something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Procmail would filter the email for the important stuff and pass that on to a PHP script. The php script would then update your database. Try a google search on procmail php. Sam On 3/11/02 11:52 AM, Jackson Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a site that I would like to be able to update content (basically news stories) on via email. I am sitting with the problem trying to figure out the best way to do this before I start coding. I am curious if anyone else has done this and has a list of lessons learned that they would be willing to share. Also is there any code available that does this kind of thing. Thanks in advance, -Jaxn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Update database via email
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:52:20AM -0500, Jackson Miller wrote: I am working on a site that I would like to be able to update content (basically news stories) on via email. I am sitting with the problem trying to figure out the best way to do this before I start coding. i'm doing symetric database replication per email. i've written some mail robots, which are called from /etc/aliases ... ~-n -- Enrico Weigelt== meTUX IT services software development, IT service, internet security solutions www: http://www.metux.de/phone: +49 36207 519931 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]cellphone: +49 174 7066481 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php