[JDEV] Re: Checking for messages without actually receiving them

2002-09-29 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
hi David, You are right i guess you can do the same with xdb_file too. Taking into what you say about transports i guess xdb_file would be more stable in deed. However i recommended xdb_sql cause it's easier IMHO to do a db query in PHP than to parse the user.xml (and i love xdb_sql :-) )

Re: [JDEV] Re: Checking for messages without actually receiving them

2002-09-26 Thread David Sutton
Hi all, Technically, you could do the same with xdb_file, just by reading the users .xml file. I'm a little worried about xdb_sql due to transports and the like. Saying that, the mod_pending server patch is also good, as detailed in another reply. I've been including that in all the se

[JDEV] Re: Checking for messages without actually receiving them

2002-09-26 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
Hi sebastian How about using xdb_sql and performaing a select count(*) from spool query from your php script to figure out if there are any messages? Since php is so powerfull this to me looks the easiest way of doing it. Sebastian Paul Avarvarei writes: > Hello, > > Is it possible to c