Re: [PHP] Update database via email

2002-03-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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 doin

Re: [PHP] Update database via email

2002-03-11 Thread Samuel Ottenhoff
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. Tr

RE: [PHP] Update database via email

2002-03-11 Thread Adam Plocher
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