Re: [PHP] Re: May i?
You can reset the id with this command: ALTER TABLE $tablename AUTO_INCREMENT = 242 : : Flavio Bastos Amiel: : : : : : INVALID_ADDRESS_IN_GROUP@.SYNTAX-ERROR., :"::: Flavio Bastos Amiel::>" wrote:let's see if i can do it... i got a news site. everything was going OKsometimes i made few testing and then i delete the content from the db... the problem is next: the item "id" is an auto_increment element .. so the id's wasn't going allrightbecause they where not true... sometimes they make jumps like id #25 and the id #30 (because of the testing i've done and then delete) i tried to delete that cell (id) and then i recreate it. thinking the id was going to count it all over and make the item id TRUE.but it wasn't like that, the "new" id was counting since the last id then if the last id was 100, the new id was counting from 100 to 200 do i explain myself?... does anyone have an answer to this problem (PLEASE Dont tell me i have to do i manually!! ) thanks, Flavio Bastos Amiel "George Nicolae" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > ask. > > -- > > > Best regards, > George Nicolae > IT Manager > ___ > PaginiWeb.com - Professional Web Design > www.PaginiWeb.com > > > "::: Flavio Bastos Amiel::>" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > May i ask for help about a subejct on MySQL here? > > > > thanks, > > Flavio Bastos Amiel > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ~ Manuel Ochoa ~ Seven days is too long to wait for a gun! - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better
[PHP] Can this be done with mail()?
I need to query a database and return a resultset. A php script will then sort through the data and send the data to the browser in the form of a table. Is it possible to gather the the results with html tags and store them in a variable so that the results can be emailed to someone? If so, how would this be done? - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes
[PHP] Printer margins
I'm creating an HTML file that will be printed by my website users. I've notices that most browser have the default print margins set to 0.75". Is there any way to change the print margins to 0.25"? - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes
[PHP] Re: Application with barcodes
Hello, On 11/25/2002 10:34 PM, Axis Computers wrote: I am developing a demo of an application which uses barcodes, but I'm running into the following problems: 1. The gd library's compiled with SuSE 7.3 Pro version of PHP 4.06 doesn't support TTF so I have to install Postcript fonts (it does support Type 1), and I really don't know where I should install them and which barcode font is better to use. 2. My application runs under a PostNuke enabled site so I can't just recompile the gd library and php to make TTF available, I'm afraid it will mess up a whole working system ! 3. The barcode will be printed over an image gif ? jpeg ? which ones works better ? Since this my first app with barcode, any advise from seasoned users it's very welcome. You may want to try these solutions: http://www.phpclasses.org/barcode128 http://www.phpclasses.org/pdfbarcode128 http://www.phpclasses.org/barcode -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Multiple page form
Hello, On 11/26/2002 01:42 PM, Shane McBride wrote: It's been a while since I have done any PHP work. I am creating an online employment application using multiple forms for a client. I was going to use PHP. I don't remember if I need to pass variables along with the form for each page, or can I just call them on the last page. The application form is very long. Any ideas? There may be a script that exists already? Yes, you may want to try this class. It lets you compose and process multipage forms in two modes: sequential access (wizard like with buttons Next >>, << Back, Finish >> and cancel) and random access (tabbed pages like with edit or view only modes). http://www.phpclasses.org/multipageforms http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/file/348/view/1/name/test_random_form_page.html http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/file/349/view/1/name/test_sequential_form_page.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Need email solution
I'm setting up a Windows 2000 server with Apache, PHP and MySQL. I also need to setup email service for 1 domain name. I'm looking for any suggestions on SMTP software.
[PHP] Re: How to create zip files in PHP ?
Hello, On 11/27/2002 01:08 PM, Php User wrote: How to create zip files in PHP ? I found that php's zip function are read only... Can any one help me with that ? You can find here a class ready to do exactly that: http://www.phpclasses.org/phpzip -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: My first XML!
Hello, On 11/27/2002 05:29 AM, Boris Kolev wrote: I want to know how i can export tree structure from Mysql table to XML mysql table structure is: ID - Group Unique Id P_ID - Parent Id Name - Name of group I want to make XML whit tree structure. Can some body help me! You may want to try this class to compose nicely formatted XML documents: http://www.phpclasses.org/xmlwriter Or even this that already converts the XML data from and to MySQL: http://www.phpclasses.org/mysql_xml -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: sendmail problem!
Hello, On 11/27/2002 09:01 PM, Siamak wrote: I use PEAR to send mails to my users through "sendmail", my mails sometimes are delivered immediately, sometimes after some minutes and sometimes after some hours and sometimes never! I tried to identify the cause but I wasn't successful, is there someone out there who can help me? I want to send an immediate message to my newly signed up users. You need to use some switches to enable immediate deliver. You may want to try this class with the sendmail_message subclass that calls sendmail directly using the necessary switches to enable the immediate delivery mode. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage I use that class with this other class for the same purpose as you to use the direct delivery mode using SMTP directly, thus without relying on SMTP: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mail with CC and BCC
Hello,
On 12/03/2002 10:09 AM, Alain Romero wrote:
PHP server = Win 2000 SP2/php 4.1.2
SMTP server = Netscape Messenger 4.15 (declare on php.ini)
Why CC and BCC never receive mail ?
The mail() function has its set of flaws, especially under Windows.
The header 'TO' is correct : see CC and BCC !
The header : "From : . CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I try severals classes I have found (PHP Classes), no good result !
You can use this class function $email_message->SetHeader("Cc:" or
"Bcc:", "[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage
If the mail() function is really not working, you may need to use also
the smtp_message sub-class along with this other class for sending:
http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass
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Regards,
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[PHP] Help with session variables
I'm running PHP 4.3 on a Windows .net server with Apache 2. Please look at the
following code as I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Page1.
session_start();
session_register("step");
$step=1;
header("location: page_A.php");
Page_A.
session_start();
extract($_SESSION);
$step=2;
header("location: page_B.php");
Page_B.
session_start();
extract($_SESSION);
print("$step");
Output is always "1". I thought that session variables were global? What am I doing
wrong?
[PHP] ANNOUNCE: Metastorage object persistence API generator
Hello, Finally I made time to release a full blown application based on MetaL compiler persistence module. Here is the release announcement that may also be found on the site: http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-05-metastorage.html _ Released Metastorage generator Manuel Lemos, 2002-12-05 16:11:44 GMT Metastorage is an application that is capable of generating persistence layer APIs. It takes a component definition defined in the Component Persistence Markup Language (CPML), a XML based format, and generates classes and storage schemas in a given target programming language. Using CPML, developers can focus their efforts on the modeling of data structures that hold the information and the relationships between the entities that their applications deal with. Metastorage takes care of generating all the necessary code to store and retrieve such data structures from persistent storage containers like relational databases. The main goal of Metastorage is to drastically reduce the time to develop applications that traditionally use on SQL based relational databases. The generated APIs consist of a sets of classes that provide an Object Oriented interface to the objects of the classes modeled using CPML. The generated APIs are also capable of installing the data schema in the persistence container, which in the case of a relational database is the set of tables that will hold the persistent objects. This completely eliminates the need to write any SQL queries manually. CPML is independent of the type of persistent container. This means that while it can be used to model classes of persistent objects that may be stored in relational databases, such objects may as well be stored in other types of persistence containers. For instance, if an application needs to move a directory of objects with user information from a relational database to a LDAP server to increase the application scalability, the same CPML component definition would be used. Metastorage would then generate classes objects that implement the same API for interfacing with a LDAP server that is compatible with the API generated to interface with relational databases. This make the migration process easier and with reduced risks. Another possible benefit of the persistence container independence of the APIs generated by Metastorage, is the case where an application may need to run in environments where a SQL based database server is not available. In that case the same API could be generated to store persistent objects in flat file databases or plain XML files. For now, the current version of Metastorage only supports the generation of PHP code based on the database independent Metabase API. This means that it may also interface with PEAR::MDB database abstraction layer using its built-in Metabase API wrapper. In consequence, many types of relational databases are already supported. Since this is the first release of Metastorage, there is plenty of room for improvement in the possibilities of the generated persistence APIs and the level of optimization of the generated code. In the future it will be supported other languages besides PHP, other database APIs besides Metabase and other persistence containers besides relational databases. Metastorage is based on MetaL compiler persistence module. Like MetaL, Metastorage is Open Source and is distributed with BSD like software license. Downloadable archives and documentation with an example of component definition are available from the MetaL site. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] ANNOUNCE: Metastorage object persistence API generator
Hello, Finally I made time to release a full blown application based on MetaL compiler persistence module. Here is the release announcement that may also be found on the site: http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-05-metastorage.html _ Released Metastorage generator Manuel Lemos, 2002-12-05 16:11:44 GMT Metastorage is an application that is capable of generating persistence layer APIs. It takes a component definition defined in the Component Persistence Markup Language (CPML), a XML based format, and generates classes and storage schemas in a given target programming language. Using CPML, developers can focus their efforts on the modeling of data structures that hold the information and the relationships between the entities that their applications deal with. Metastorage takes care of generating all the necessary code to store and retrieve such data structures from persistent storage containers like relational databases. The main goal of Metastorage is to drastically reduce the time to develop applications that traditionally use on SQL based relational databases. The generated APIs consist of a sets of classes that provide an Object Oriented interface to the objects of the classes modeled using CPML. The generated APIs are also capable of installing the data schema in the persistence container, which in the case of a relational database is the set of tables that will hold the persistent objects. This completely eliminates the need to write any SQL queries manually. CPML is independent of the type of persistent container. This means that while it can be used to model classes of persistent objects that may be stored in relational databases, such objects may as well be stored in other types of persistence containers. For instance, if an application needs to move a directory of objects with user information from a relational database to a LDAP server to increase the application scalability, the same CPML component definition would be used. Metastorage would then generate classes objects that implement the same API for interfacing with a LDAP server that is compatible with the API generated to interface with relational databases. This make the migration process easier and with reduced risks. Another possible benefit of the persistence container independence of the APIs generated by Metastorage, is the case where an application may need to run in environments where a SQL based database server is not available. In that case the same API could be generated to store persistent objects in flat file databases or plain XML files. For now, the current version of Metastorage only supports the generation of PHP code based on the database independent Metabase API. This means that it may also interface with PEAR::MDB database abstraction layer using its built-in Metabase API wrapper. In consequence, many types of relational databases are already supported. Since this is the first release of Metastorage, there is plenty of room for improvement in the possibilities of the generated persistence APIs and the level of optimization of the generated code. In the future it will be supported other languages besides PHP, other database APIs besides Metabase and other persistence containers besides relational databases. Metastorage is based on MetaL compiler persistence module. Like MetaL, Metastorage is Open Source and is distributed with BSD like software license. Downloadable archives and documentation with an example of component definition are available from the MetaL site. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Metastorage generates Entity-Relationship class diagrams in UML
Hello, As announced last week, Metastorage is an application that generates customizable APIs made of classes that store and retrieve objects stored in persistent storage containers like for instance relational databases. The generated code uses Metabase API and consequently supports PEAR::MDB via Metabase API wrapper. In addition to that, the current version is also capable of generating automatically Entity-Relationship graphs using UML to present diagrams of the generated classes. The generated Entity-Relationship graphs are described in the DOT language format. This format is used by the Graphviz software package from AT&T research labs. The DOT file can be rendered in many common image formats using Graphviz tools to generate a graph image. An example of an Entity-Relationship UML diagram generated by the program from a component example definition is included in the Metastorage documentation. Here you may find the complete announcement with example graphics and the relevant links: http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-09-metastorage.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Mail Error
I have a Windows server running Apache 2 and PHP 4.3 I got the following error while using the mail() function: Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 User not local. We don't relay in C:\Apache2\htdocs\mymail.php on line 22 Any ideas?
[PHP] Getting the username
I'm developing an Intranet at my company and was wondering if there is any way to get the username from someone who is already logged into a Windows network?
Re: [PHP] validate date
Here is a funtion that I use.
A user can enter a date in any of the following ways:
01 01 03
01-01-03
1-1-03
01-1-2003
1-01/03
1/1 03 you get the idea...
This function will standardize the date and make sure it's valid. If invalid it
returns "ERROR"
function fixdate($data){
$aux[0]="";
$aux[1]="";
$aux[2]="";
$z=0;
for($i=0; $i wrote:If a user inputs a date into
a form, what function can I use to validate
that he put in a valid date?
I want to use checkdate but that needs the date split up into day, month
year.
Anyone have an easy way of doing this?
Thanks,
Diana
Re: [PHP] case statement?
Yes, It's called "SWITCH" Just go to www.php.net and lookup "switch" in the function list Max Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi- I was wondering if php had a case function? Instead of building a large if/elseif/else block I would like to do a case $page in (list). Thanks in advance, Max -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mass Mailing
Hello, On 12/21/2002 08:10 PM, Jonathan Chum wrote: An upcoming project I'm working and spec'ing out is a mass mailing application. Initially, I was looking at Mailman which was written in Python since it looks like it handles delivering emails efficiently without killing the server. We have 1 client able to send 110,000 emails at 6.5K avg per week on PIII 800 with 128 MB RAM using Mailman. The inteface however is very bad and we'd like to develop other features like text ads, tracking, templates, etc. This would require writing a wrapper around Mailman in PHP. I was considering of writing the mass mailing application in PHP instead though. If anyone has eperience writing such applications with this amount of emails, I'd like to know what you've done. If you do not need to send personalized messages (messages that differ for each recipient), just put all recipients in a BCc: header and send a single message to the local mailer queue (not via SMTP). If you do not care for the users that bounce messages, just make the return path be black hole email address. OTOH, if you care about bounces (you should if you mailing list is large or is not clean), consider using ezmlm, which is a mailing list manager than among other things takes care of bounce messages thanks to qmail VERP. I was told that is the one that eGroups hacked to use in the now known YahooGroups site. Once I built a small Web interface for ezmlm. It was meant just to create and edit several mailing lists meant to be used as newsletter for a portal with many sites. Is simple but it already comes with a SOAP interface to manage the mailing list subscribers remotely. http://www.phpclasses.org/ezmlmmanager I'm thinking of coding the front end in PHP that will put the email into a queue table that will force a command line PHP script listening on a particular port to scan the database for this new task in queue. Once it picks up the task, the timeout for this application to run will be set to infinite. It'll establish a SMTP socket either to a really beefed up mailing list server or the localhost SMTP server to begin blasting out these emails. From what I understand, it's better to blast emails via an open socket connection to SMTP rather than looping through Sendmail. Is this the right thing todo? No, queuing via SMTP is the slowest way to send messages. Your script should not bother to deliver the messages to the recipients SMTP servers. Delivery can take hours or days to finish due to network congestions and hard to conect SMTP servers. Just queue the messages in the local mailer and let it take care the actual delivery. I would recommend a qmail based system anytime, with or without ezmlm on top. In a production system that I manage, it just takes 3 seconds to queue a alert message to be sent to 50,000 via a local qmail server. You can also use sendmail almost as fast using the queue only mode. Some people think that sendmail is slow and many forks processes because they are not aware of how to configure it to queue the messages the fastest way that is possible. You may want to look into this class that has a sub-classes for delivering with sendmail program directly instead of using the mail(). It lets you configure the sendmail delivery mode. There is also a sub-class for delivering with qmail. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage I've also heard that PHP is not good for writing mailing lists application, but Mailman is written in Python and it's able to send thousands of email just fine. Any thoughts on this? When people do not know how to do it properly, they blame it on the software. Note down: *smart software always beats fast software*. Sure you can use a faster language like C (not Python), but if you develop smart software in PHP it can be almost as fast as a similar solution in C and does not take an etternity to develop and debug. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mass Mailing
lization. Your Mime Message class seems to be better for sending mass mailings as it queues up the email into Sendmail without opening/closing the connection for Actually the class provides different delivery methods that maybe appropriate in different circunstances: mail(), sendmail, qmail and SMTP. SMTP is the slowest for queuing but it is the fastest for direct delivery. My SMTP class supports direct deliveries which is great to deliver urgent messages as they are not relayed to the local mailer. It delivers to the recipient SMTP server and you will know if the message was accepted right away. I use this to deliver password reminder and other messages that users of my sites are anxious to receive because the local mailer queue may be loaded at the moment with some long delivery. each recepient. phpmailer.sourceforget.net has that problem of opening and closing a connection, yet they claim to receive good results of up to 40,000 emails per hour. Another software using that class was able to send 500,000 emails in 10 hours. You should not consider any delivery statistics because all depends on factors that have nothing to do with the software you use, like the outbound bandwidth, remote server reachability, anti-spam reception delays, temporary messages refusals (mailbox full, blocked account, etc..). If injecting the emails directly into Qmail (Sounds to me that Qmail is far better for email deliver than to be using Sendmail) vs using SMTP, then DJB software rules! BTW, consider using DJBDNS cache to reduce DNS server lookup time. that'll be the approach. The only reason I'd would be using SMTP is to keep the code and data (on MySQL) stored on one machine and when it's time to blast out an email, it'll establish a connection to a SMTP server assigned to the list to deliver the email. In that case, you may consider QMQP relay which is a protocol that lets you rely entire mail queues from a server to another. This is recommended when you have many busy mailing lists served from one machine and you can use more servers do the actual delivery. I think only qmail and ezmlm support QMQP. Though if the code was written to sit on each server that scans for pending tasks, it'll pick up it's job from a master database server and then directly injecting Qmail locally. That is what qmail does. The software app I'm writing is expected to have many users with small to very large lists. I'm trying to spec this out so that it scales well and with the fastest delivery. From what I'm hearing from you and from the first guy's reply to this thread, inject the email into Qmail is the quickest way. Yes, qmail was thought for that. Yahoogroups use it and I have also used when I worked in a large portal with many subscriber newsletters as I mentioned. We had some very large like for MTV Brasil that had almost 400,000 subscribers. The greatest problem that made me learn some hard lessons is that it is very problematic if you start with subscribers list that are not clean up of no longer valid users. Once you start delivering messages to those addresses, you get a flood of bounces that pratically stop your server queue. The MTV newsletter was weekly, but that affected the newsletters of other sites that were stopped during the MTV newsletter bounces. Since ezmlm does not unsubscribe bouncing addresses right away, the solution was to remove bouncing subscribers using an external validation procedure. I used this other class for the cleanup. After that it was a breeze. We had peaks of 10,000 messages sent per minute. http://www.phpclasses.org/emailvalidation -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Email problems.
Hello, On 12/22/2002 11:29 AM, Steve Jackson wrote: I have generated a page on our server using PHP (from within a CMS system) which I renamed the output .html to use in an html email. My problem is when I cut and paste the HTML into the email (Outlook) it either: displays the code, displays the html email and then when it's sent, sends it as an attachment or sends it as a bunch of html links and badly formatted text. I assumed (badly) that Outlook would simply send HTML emails if you formatted the program to send html emails but this seems almost impossible. Anyone have any suggestions? This is the page I want to send: http://www.violasystems.com/e-news/template.html You may want to try this class for composing messages that lets you add parts from files. Just specify the URL as filename: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flow diagrams.
Hello, On 12/26/2002 05:18 PM, Sridhar Moparthy wrote: > Do you know how to prepare and display process flow diagrams dynamically > based on some data from database. I have information about some processes in > the database that tells different process dependencies. I need to display > that information as a process flow diagram. You may want to look at Metastorage that draws graphs of classes of objects that are stored in a database: http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-09-metastorage.html http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flow diagrams
Hello, On 12/27/2002 06:00 PM, Sridhar Moparthy wrote: I have information about some processes in the database that tells different process dependencies. I need to display that information as a process flow diagram. Do you know how to prepare and display process flow diagrams dynamically. Do you know anything like JPGraph or Java script or java applet that can do this? If so Please help me. As I explained before, you may want to take a look at Metastorage. Among other things it generates graphs in UML that represent a diagram of classes that are mapped to database tables. http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-09-metastorage.html http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html Metastorage generates the graphs that can be rendered in many common image formats using AT&T GraphViz package. GraphViz takes a description of the nodes and the edges of the graphs and renders them in target image format. In the pages above there are some links to the relevant GraphViz pages. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mail attachments
Hello, On 01/02/2003 12:07 PM, Edward Peloke wrote: I hope you all had a great New Year. Is attaching a document to an e-mail simply a matter of adding a new header in the mail function? No, but if you try this class it becomes much easier than it is doing it manually: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Using mail() for mailist list app
Hello, On 01/01/2003 08:46 PM, Monty wrote: Is the PHP mail() command robust enough to use in a little mailing list app? Sure, it just calls sendmail, so it is just as robust as sendmail as long as you configure it properly. The app will basically send an HTML or Text e-mail to the member database of about 6,000 people. I'm using RedHat Linux 7.2 with PHP 4.2.2, by the way. I'm concerned I'll bog down my server if I issue the mail() command 6,000 times on our server, but, maybe it won't be a problem? Since you used RedHat Linux, the default mailer is sendmail so you need to configure the deliveries to just queue a single message without attempting to deliver them right away. You need to put all recipients in Bcc: to just need to queue a single message. It is very fast, think about just a few seconds. You probably take more than that extracting the addresses from the database. Also, although I'm sending HTML e-mail, I'm not including attachments or inline graphics (only direct hotlinks to graphics on a web server). Will mail() still work okay for this, or do I need to use one of the various PHP e-mail classes available to send HTML e-mail? Yes, but HTML messages need to have an alternative text part or else spam filters may reject it. So it is always recommended that you build your system on existing components that have been throughly tested to compose messages adequately. In that case you may want to try this class that lets you compose and send messages not only with alternative text and HTML parts but also embedded images for the HTML part if you want and attachments. Since you need to use sendmail, there is also a sub-class to make deliveries using sendmail program directly so you can set delivery mode SENDMAIL_DELIVERY_DEFERRED to eliminate the queue time. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] accelerator and Apache 2
I recently installed the Zend Optimizer and noticed an improvement in preformance. I'm running Windows .NET Enterprise Server 2003 PHP 4.3.0 as a module Apache 2.0.43 Go to www.Zend.com Jochen Kaechelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Is there a free php accelerator out there which runs under Apache 2? -- Jochen Kaechelin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] PHP complied code
I recently read a book on PHP and the author breifly said that if you compile the PHP code it would improve the performance. Is there a way to compile the code?
[PHP] Re: Timeout during SMTP operation.
Hello, On 01/02/2003 06:02 PM, Gilrain wrote: I've just finished a PHP/MySQL mailing list. Basically, I'm having problems with my sendmail function. It takes an array of e-mail addresses ($addresses) and loops through it, e-mailing each one using an SMTP class I found (the only identifying comment in it is "SMTP Class By TOMO (2001/09/14)"). The problem is, it's very slow. The typical array of addresses sent to this is 100 to 500 elements large. The actual mailing list has over 7000 members, but the e-mails are sent out to a geographical region. Ideally, though, this function should be able to handle mailing to the entire member base. Here's the offending function (with private stuff altered). Currently, it will only send to about 50 of the addresses before Internet Explorer times out and cuts it off (perhaps five minutes or so). Note that this is without catches, so it skips to the 'else'. If I comment out the sending part, as shown, the operation takes a split second and the log is written correctly, so I know the problem lies in the sending of the mail. The only solution I can think of is to make the user send things in chunks of 50 or so addresses, but I'd like to avoid this inconvenience if I can. Any ideas? Using SMTP to deliver messages is a bad idea unless you do not have an option, like you are under Windows. Under Unix/Linux it is better inject the messages in the local mailer queue and have it to do the bulk delivery. In that case you may want to try this class that comes with sub-classes that let you configure details of delivery depending on your local mailer. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: 2 servers for mail implementation
Hello, On 01/03/2003 01:11 AM, Roger Thomas wrote: dear all, i have 2 servers that were *given* to me to setup and implement webmail solution for our client. i have done some groundwork in terms of the backend applications that are needed to do this. what i wanted to know is, how best can i distribute the backend applications between those 2 servers to achieve a balance and fast response. can i go like this: server A ldap courier-imap server B apache php qmail No I suggest that you use just one server the Web and receiving e-mail and the other server for delivering e-mail. In the Web server configure qmail smtproutes control variable pointing to the other server that will only allow relaying messages from the Web server. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mass-mailing method
Hello, On 01/03/2003 04:08 AM, Cesar Aracena wrote: I did a registration page for a customer, and now I'm trying to develop a way for him to send an e-mail once in a while to the people registered with him. I did something (shown below) and everything seems to be ok, but the e-mail never reaches... Can someone find the problem or maybe point me to something already done to send multiple e-mails as BCC??? I think Bcc: addresses have to be separated with commas (,). If that is not the problem, you may want to try this class that has built-in some workarounds that solve non-obvious quirks of using the mail() function. I use it to deliver in average 2 million message a month most of them with tens of thousands of recipients in Bcc:. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: How to attach a file to mail()
Hello, On 01/03/2003 11:40 AM, Föíö Öxîêójînyóon wrote: mail($to, $subject, $body, "From: $email"); how do I insert an attachment into this mail function, It would be submitted with file field and would be called attachment. You may want to try this class. All you need to do is to pass the file name of the uploaded file to add as an attachment: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: FW: [PHP] How to get the mail sending stuff to work on Win2k?
Hello, On 01/05/2003 10:37 PM, Rad Craig wrote: I run ArgoSoft's mail server which has worked great. I use SMTP authentication, could that be the problem? Is there a way to setup the info for SMTP authentication in PHP so it can pass it to the mail server during it's sendmail type functions? No, PHP mail() function does not support authentication. You may want to try this class that comes with a wrapper function named smtp_mail() that emulates the mail() function by sending the message via SMTP. It les you configure the authentication credentials among other things that the mail() function does not support: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage To send via SMTP you also need this: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Strange problem with MAIL
Hello,
On 01/06/2003 08:22 AM, Cesar Aracena wrote:
I've been trying to make my way around a complex mailing system for the
past couple of days with no success, but now I noticed that I can't just
send a simple:
mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "My Subject", "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3");
I used to make this scripts work all the time before using the same
hosting but something changed now... is there a way to see what's going
on using phpinfo.php or other way???
mail() is a problematic function that often fails without a clue.
Sometimes it is a problem in PHP configuration, some times it is a
problem in the actual mail implementation and other times it is a mail
server problem.
I think what is more important to start having an idea is for you to
tell if you are hosted under Unix/Linux or Windows.
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[PHP] Re: Strange problem with MAIL (Correction)
Hello, On 01/06/2003 08:33 AM, Cesar Aracena wrote: I just checked my hotmail account (one of three I'm sending to) and all the emails arrived correctly (sorry for the re-post) but it's not reaching the other two. One of them, I know it has a very poor configuration and can hardly receive e-mails from PHP scripts, but the other one usually works correct (the one I have with the hosting)... Can anyone tell me what are the headers sent usually so mostly everyone can receive the mails? Sometimes the problem is in the type of hosting platform that you are using but you did not tell if it is Windows or Unix/Linux. Anyway, I do not use or recommend mail() function directly at all. I use this class to compose and send messages. It has already some built-in workaround to many flaws of the mail() function depending on your platform. I do not know if your problem is just headers but this class puts all the headers that should be there. It also provides mail() function replacement functions that use different delivery methods which often is a problem depending on your platform. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Dreaded Return-Path and mail()
Hello, On 01/06/2003 09:37 AM, Monty wrote: Is there anything else I can try? I want to avoid changing this in the PHP.ini file because I don't want e-mail from all domains to look like it is coming from a single domain, if possible. I think you are doing something wrong because that works well as long as you use PHP 4.0.6 or higher. You may want to try this class and just define the Return-Path header like any other message header. The class will make sure it will work for your setup or else it will return an useful error message. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mail() not working on Win2k
Hello,
On 01/06/2003 01:21 PM, Rad Craig wrote:
I'm running under Win2k, new install of PHP(last week), I have been trying
to test the mail() function, but it doesn't seem to work. I host my own
mail server on the same machine and I know it works, has been for months,
all other mail come/goes just fine. I don't have the default SMTP server
for IIS installed since I have my own SMTP/POP3 mail server on this same
server.
I have tried it with the following:
mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "test message", "this is a test");
I have SMTP authentication turned off on my mail server for this testing.
It never arrives, I never get an error.
I can telnet to port 25, all works fine.
phpinfo.php reports that everything looks good, only thing i saw was that
the extension directory shows c:\php4 instead of c:\php.
I don't have any extra .dll's or anything turned on since it has built-in
support for MySQL.
Have you tried this alternative as I suggested in this other message to
you? Many people solved their problem with it, so can you.
http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.general&article=130351
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Re: [PHP] Re: mail() not working on Win2k
Hello,
On 01/06/2003 08:46 PM, Rad Craig wrote:
I can't use that as the program that I need for the email to work with, I
don't have access to it's mail() function...yet.
As I explained, the class comes with a wrapper function named
smtp_mail() that emulates mail() function (but without the bugs). All
you need to do is to replace mail() calls by smtp_mail() calls including
smtp_mail.php where needed.
Even if you do not want to replace anything, you can still try the class
test scripts to see if it works for you. If it doesn't, it will provide
helpful error messages unlike the mail() function. Now it is up to you
if you want to progress in solving your problem.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Re: mail() not working on Win2k
Hello,
On 01/06/2003 01:21 PM, Rad Craig wrote:
I'm running under Win2k, new install of PHP(last week), I have
been trying
to test the mail() function, but it doesn't seem to work. I host my own
mail server on the same machine and I know it works, has been
for months,
all other mail come/goes just fine. I don't have the default
SMTP server
for IIS installed since I have my own SMTP/POP3 mail server on this same
server.
I have tried it with the following:
mail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "test message", "this is a test");
I have SMTP authentication turned off on my mail server for
this testing.
It never arrives, I never get an error.
I can telnet to port 25, all works fine.
phpinfo.php reports that everything looks good, only thing i
saw was that
the extension directory shows c:\php4 instead of c:\php.
I don't have any extra .dll's or anything turned on since it
has built-in
support for MySQL.
Have you tried this alternative as I suggested in this other message to
you? Many people solved their problem with it, so can you.
http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.general&article=130351
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[PHP] Re: test_smtp.php
Hello, On 01/07/2003 08:37 PM, Rad Craig wrote: I'm trying to implement this smtp_email stuff. I'm running Win2k, ArgoSoft Mail Server Pro, PHP 4.3.0, MySQL, etc. I downloaded everything on these pages: DNS Resolver: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/file/1910.html You won't need this unless you are doing direct delivery which is not your case because you want to relay the messages in your local server. MIME: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/9.html SMTP: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/14 I'm sorry, but I'm a newb, so I have no idea what I'm doing with PHP. I created a \includes directory under my main PHP directory and my include path in the .ini file points there. I copied all of these files there except for the test_*.* files. I host my own mail server on the same machine. I then loaded up the file test_smtp.php in an editor and started filling in some blanks, like: $to - changed this to my email address $smtp->user - changed this to my email username $smtp->realm - changed this to my domain name $smtp->password - changed this to my email password I left everything else alone except changing $smtp->debug=1 after it didn't work the first time. My mail server requires authentication. I didn't receive any email, nor any output in the browser when I run that test page. Looks like it should give me SOME sort of feedback whether it succeeds or fails at the bottom, apparently it's never getting that far. To let you see anything, it is better to try this script from the command line (DOS prompt) using the PHP standalone executable (CGI/CLI) that is in your PHP installation directory named php.exe Then just do php.exe -q test_smtp.php Anyway, it is better to solve your problem to try the test_smtp_mail.php script instead. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Need a suggestion on developing a php-related system
Hello, On 01/08/2003 03:40 AM, Kelvin Poon wrote: HI, I am new to PHP and I am just wondering if anyone could give me some help. I am currently working for infomart.ca, it is basically a company that sells articles (news/business). MY employer require me to develop a system using Perl and PHP, and the assignment is as follow: To develop a system that collects, stores, processes and disseminates internally the updating status of our databases. We currently have over 200 databases from various daily newspapers, magazines, TV transcripts and other periodicals. Most of them are updated every weekday between 4a.m. and 7a.m.. Others are updated on a weekly or monthly basis. THe update schedule Tv. the actual status need to be captured and made available to internal staff. This is similar to the flight departure/arrival information in an airport. This is vague. What do you mean exactly by captured and made available to internal staff? Do you mean aggregate from somewhere to a central place? Anyway, news feed compilation and aggregation leads to XML-RDF-RSS. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Medium to Large PHP Application Design
Hello, On 01/10/2003 01:51 AM, Nick Oostveen wrote: As PHP becomes more accepted in the corporate world, it is only logical that larger and more complex applications are going to be developed using it. While there is an abundance of information out there about making specific things work, there seems to be a shortage regarding the big picture. As such, my question is this: What methods and techniques can be used to help design and build complex, medium to large PHP applications that are not only scalable, but maintainable and extensible? I'm looking for online references, personal experience and opinion and even examples of open source code which you think demonstrate the above criteria on this one. I think an extended discussion on this topic could be of great benefit to everyone. Obviously separating application and business logic from interface code is a given, but what about other things? Are the object orientated facilities of PHP currently worth really trying to take advantage of? If so, what are you doing to take advantage of them? Are design concepts such as design patterns relevant at this level? What frameworks, if any, currently exist to assist in rapid, structured development, and what specific benefits do they bring to the table? Your concerns are the same that I had several months ago. PHP is indeed fine for small applications but when it comes to large applications you end up coding by hand many repetitive tasks that could be abstracted by tools that generate the code for from conceptual definitions to save a lot of development time. One of the most frequent tasks that becomes one of the most development time consuming is interfacing with databases to store and retrieve application data. I did some research to find what kind of tools exist to automate tasks like database interfacing making it flexible enough to adjust to the application needs and generate efficient code. I realized that there are plenty of components for handling what I need that are usually named persistence layers. One of the problems that those components has is that most of them are not for PHP. Another problem is that many of them tend to be too generic and a try to do most of the things at run time. So, I decided to develop a persistence layer generator application. It would generate PHP (although mine can also generate Java and Perl) and it would not generate code that applications may not need to avoid generating bloatware made of code that most of the time is not needed. I also would like to never need to deal SQL in any place. Last month I finally released Metastorage after over 3 months of development. It is a persistence layer generator application that takes a XML based description of components made of classes . You just describe the classes variables, relationships between classes, validation rules and the declaration functions that you want to use to store and retrieve the classes objects from persistence storage that is currently a SQL based database. From then on, Metastorage generate everything for you, including all the code for all the classes and even schemas definitions and classes for installing the database tables that are needed. The generated code is database independent. As a bonus, it also generates entity relationship like class diagrams in UML that you can render in many image formats. This is usually very good to document projects in such a professional way that impresses customers and bosses. The good part is that it reduces to minutes or hours, the work that usually would take weeks or months to develop with hand written code. Metastorage is Open Source is available here: http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-09-metastorage.html http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Favorite Email validation routine?
Hello, On 01/13/2003 03:21 AM, Peter Janett wrote: I'm looking for everyone's favorite email syntax validation routine. Code that takes an email address and does regex on it to determine if it's formatted correctly. I know there are some on phpclasses.org that actually check the mx record and server of the domain, but I'm just looking for a good, clean and fast email address syntax check. So, what is your favorite bit of code to do that? This class that I don't know if you seen also comes with complex regex for simple e-mail address validation: http://www.phpclasses.org/emailvalidation -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: attach image with the mail command?
Hello, On 01/14/2003 11:09 PM, Harald Mohring wrote: how can i attach an image with the mail command how do get the image in a variable when i have chosen it with the input type file? Do you mean attaching an image as a separate file or embed it in the message so it displays in HTML message? Either way, you may want to try this class: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: MIME email...
Hello, On 01/16/2003 11:37 AM, Brian McGarvie wrote: Now... the problem I have is some people are reporting they get the Multi-part stuff as the body... for others it'll work as wanted... i.e. display Plaintext or render the HTML as wanted. Anyone had this problem? It looks like one of those bugs of mail() function that affect mail systems differently. You may want to try this class that has workarounds for some of the mail() function bugs. It also makes it simple to compose multipart/alternative messages: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: PHP Review Site
Hello, On 01/17/2003 11:40 PM, Stephen wrote: I was just wondering if there were any PHP review sites that review free and paid scripts? If so, where? If your script is in the form of a PHP class of objects, you may want to try uploading it to the PHP Classes site. You will not get explict reviews, bu your work is exposed to tens of thousands of PHP users eager to learn about new classes. http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Help with e-mail
Hello, On 01/21/2003 10:13 AM, Dankshit wrote: Is there a way to autenticate an SMTP server in my PHP.ini??? No. In my development site, i need to autenticate a SMTP, but in the PHP.INI does not have an option to autenticate..does anybody has any solution for this?? You may want to try this composing and sending class that has a sub-class for sending via SMTP with authentication suppport. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage If you do not want to change much your program, it comes with a wrapper function named smtp_mail() that you can use in replacement of mail() calls as smtp_mail() emulates mail() completely with the advantage of features like authentication that mail() does not support. In that case you also need this other class for the actual SMTP delivery: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: writing a newsletter program in php?
Hello, On 01/22/2003 08:15 PM, Mark C wrote: I'm new to php (ok new, try 3 days ;), althought, I'm finding it fun, I 'm trying to think of a project to do, to get me more into it. And after having a discussion with a friend and also setting up several Mailman mailing lists for people that want to compose HTML mails and post them as newsletters, it got me thinking, would I be able to create a similar program to mailman in php? So admins just login to the list. copy and past the html into a text box and php then renders it for a preview, then if they like it, they click send, this send queries the database and sends it to all the people list to receive mail on that list. I would assume that the sending could be handed off somehow to sendmail/postfix? Yes, but you are recommend to set sendmail with the appropriate queuing flags so it does not stall your PHP script while attempting to deliver to every subscribers and instead just queue the messages without delay. In that case you may want to try this class for composing and sending messages, that has a sub-class for sending using sendmail program directly. It already comes with options that let you tell to just queue the messages without delay as needed. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage The list front end would also hold list preferances as well, for subscribers and admins, basically I want to mimik Mailman, but in php and be able to render previews of mails first, basically it will be a newsletter program, rather than a mailing list one, which is where Mailman falls over. Yes, but keep in mind that besides composing and sending messages, you also have to take care of creating subscriber records, validating subscriber addresses, handling bounces, handling unsubscriptions, etc... and dedicating mailing list manager programs already do that. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: SMTP, mail() and piping directly into Sendmail, which is better?
Hello, On 01/23/2003 01:48 AM, Jonathan Chum wrote: Then with PHP's mail(), folks have been saying that because it opens/closes a connection, looping through mail() adds additional overhead and that the best way would be to pipe into the MTA with popen()/pclose() People that say that are either Windows users or have no idea how mail works. Only on Windows the mail() function relays messages to a SMTP server. Under Unix/Linux mail just calls the sendmail program piping the message data to the standard input like with popen and pclose. Now I'm curious which method is really better...Piping into the MTA will still open/close the connection and adds the same amount of overhead as mail() do right? What are your thoughts on SMTP? Forget relaying on a SMTP server even when it is the local server. Relaying via SMTP just does the same thing as piping data to sendmail except that it takes a longer trip by establishing a TCP connection to the SMTP server. To make relaying faster, it is better to call sendmail directly passing the necessary switches to make it just accept the message without any delay so it will free your PHP script. Delivery will happen next time it will run the queue. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: OO2relation mapping
Hello, On 01/25/2003 01:40 PM, Dominik Wittenbeck wrote: I am currently developing a object to relational mapping layer for PHP. It's NOT a simple treat all databases like one kind of layer (although it does involve it to preserve extensibility) but an XML based intermediate layer that creates both, table structures, following a conventional scheme and PHP classes that allow, OO access to these tables. I have enclosed the XML file that represents the intermediate layer. Its pretty readable even without the XML schema. I am currently under development, so don't expect anything useful in less than a few weeks Question: Does anyone of you know anyone who has tried something similar, because my research on the subject grows thin? Is something like this of public interest at all, or would you prefer accessing your datastructure the old fashion way? You have pretty much describe Metastorage. It is basically a generator application that lets you model classes of objects that are mapped and stored in relational database database. You just need to to describe your classes also in a XML file with the class variables, validation rules, relationships between classes and the types of functions that your application needs to manipulate the classes objects. Metastorage generates all the code for the classes ready to use in your applications. That includes also a separate class with code to install the database schema. The resulting classes API is database independent. This means that you do not need to change your application to use the same classes with different types databases. Many types of databases are supported. Still, you do not need to write absolutely any SQL in anywhere. Metastorage generates adequate code for you where needed. I do not mean to discourage from continuing your work, but since there is a great deal of overlap between Metastorage and what you have in mind, you are most welcomed at least to eveluate Metastorage if not also contribute in anyway to its development. Metastorage is Open Source and is avaliable here: http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-09-metastorage.html http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: OO2relation mapping
Hello, On 01/26/2003 02:59 AM, Dominik Wittenbeck wrote: Sounds most interesting (and far more ambicious, than what I had in mind). I'll probably do you wrong by not grasping the full extend of the project, but in short, did I get it right: XML2UML2ProgrammingLanguage Don't be mislead by this page. Generation of UML class diagrams is just a bonus feature. It is not even a core feature. It is just helpful to explain and document your project class relationships. The main goal is to generate code in a few seconds that otherwise would take you days or weeks to write, test and debug manually. http://www.meta-language.net/news-2002-12-09-metastorage.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: OO2relation mapping
Hello, On 01/26/2003 03:20 AM, Dominik Wittenbeck wrote: I am targeting a more slim solution though, solving a very specialized problem. As a developer I simply hate needing to change a database table, splitting it up, to make it fit the customers needs. I causes all those SQL statement to be revised. With the oo2rel mapping layer I have put much thought into the possibility that a project's datastructure actually might need a change when it is live and filled with data. I cannot simply change the structure, recompile my classes and submit them. I somehow need to preserve integrity within the data model as well. I know I cannot come up with a comprehensive tutorial, not even working examples, but this is the background in front of which I need to operate and somehow I feel I am not the only one That is a feature provided by Metabase schema management. Currently, Metastorage generates code that use Metabase database API. Metabase lets you define database schemas using a simple XML format that is database independent. Metabase takes care of the installation of such schema. If you change the XML schema definition, Metabase will apply the changes without affecting the data that was added to the database after it was installed for the first time or updated for the last time. If you are providing such feature in your project, basically you are replicating that capability that Metabase provides for about 4 years now when it was started being developed. I am going to keep basic SQL statements, since that's the way developers, not having a degree think in those relational SQL structures as they understand them more easily. Why take something away from them they know. SQL will just be adapted to OO-state in a manner that is readable and understandable at first glance. There are plenty of reasons to prevent developers to use SQL by hand. First because Metastorage has all the information it needs to retrieve the objects from the database using appropriate SQL code that is statically embedded in the generated classes. If you are going to let the developer specify SQL by hand, your code is more likely to be buggy because your application will not verify if the developer specified SQL code is appropriate and correct. Also, if it is the developer that enters the SQL code, you prevent the possibility to perform context specific optimizitions that the code generator could perform statically. Anyway, the most important point is that if the developer still has to supply the SQL code, you are not taking much of his work and so the developments will still take a long time, the main reason why so many IT projects fail. The solution of Metastorage is to let the developer control everything from high level. If you need to specify details that usually would require SQL, like specifying filtering conditions, Metastorage provides an high level syntax for specifying such conditions in the classes XML definition. That lets Metastorage verify the validity of the conditions and generate optimized code. As I said: not as comprehensive and complete as your project, but I think its targeting a more specific solution, that occurs often enough in everyday I am not sure what you mean about targeting a more specific solution . life to need support. You didn't discourage me at all, but rather give me an idea, where thing might be going for me in the future. Tnx! I will have a look into MetaL, that's for sure, but I will also continue with the OO2REL project ;-) No, problem. I just thought you would like to know about the overlap of the projects, so you just don't duplicate efforts re-inventing the wheel. If your project provides something better of something that Metastorage does not provide, I would most certainly would like to know. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Masive mail Advice
Hello, On 01/26/2003 02:17 AM, Maciek Ruckgaber Bielecki wrote: I'll start to write an application which will be used to send large amounts of mail to users in a DB. All these mails to be sent shoul be personalized. Since i understand, and please correct me if im wrong, the mail() function is not a good option for this purpose. (the amount of mail to be sent may vary from 50 to 800 messages). I have considered using some masive mail application such majordomo or EZMLM. EZMLM is not easily configurable for sending personalized mail, and majordomo requires sendmail, (i would prefer to use qmail), i know about patches to be done so it works with qmail, but i dont consider them really clean. What would you guys suggest ?? should i jump into majordomo - sendmail, or do you know something else that might be a better solution. That number of messages is small and with today's servers you can queue that volume of personalized is less than a minute. Your problems will start as you enter in the tens of thousands of recipients, not because qmail won't handle it but because that many message in the queue will prevent the incoming messages to arrive in time. Anyway, for that volume of messages you may want to try this class that comes with an example of how to send personalized messages to many users. For larger volumes of recipients you can still use the same class but it will take much more time, so to not choke the mail queue, you would better send the messages during a few minutes and then rest for about 3 times the same period before you resume sending for a few minutes more. For greater efficiency, if possible do not personalize the message body so you can hint the class to cache it so it does not waste time regenerating the message body for each recipient. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mass Mailing
corporate this into the application. BTW, isn't there any overhead associating with opening/closing a connection to inject each email into Qmail? Or it's very minimal overhead to even worry about? If 100,000 was looped and injected into Qmail, is Qmail fast enough that 100,000 emails are not just sitting on the server filling up disk space? Queueing is fast because you are just calling a local program. Unless you are using a spare server for relay, the greatest problem are those addresses that while they are not invalid nor reject messages, they are hard to deliver like those on servers with slow links or those that intentionally put delays that take many tens of seconds to accept the message to make it harder for spammers. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Masive mail Advice
Hello, On 01/26/2003 08:22 PM, Mark Charette wrote: -Original Message- From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] That number of messages is small and with today's servers you can queue that volume of personalized is less than a minute. Your problems will start as you enter in the tens of thousands of recipients, not because qmail won't handle it but because that many message in the queue will prevent the incoming messages to arrive in time. ??? There are two separate processes here - the outgoing connections to the remote SMTP servers and the incoming connections to your own SMTP servers. Tuning qmail involves setting the number of outgoing queues so as not to overload your communications line. I _personally_ have sent more than 300,000 messages with no "resting" mechanism - doing that means you haven't tuned your qmail system for the load. The problem does not have to do with SMTP but with qmail local queue handling. If you send messages to many users and the bounce address is set to some address handled by the same server, you will be starting to get bounces to the same machine and thus the same qmail server. The way to solve this is to put the bounce address point to some address that is handled by a different server or even to nowhere. Using a spare server for the actual delivery reduces that problem too. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Masive mail Advice
On 01/26/2003 09:25 PM, Mark Charette wrote: That number of messages is small and with today's servers you can queue that volume of personalized is less than a minute. Your problems will start as you enter in the tens of thousands of recipients, not because qmail won't handle it but because that many message in the queue will prevent the incoming messages to arrive in time. ??? There are two separate processes here - the outgoing connections to the remote SMTP servers and the incoming connections to your own SMTP servers. Tuning qmail involves setting the number of outgoing queues so as not to overload your communications line. I _personally_ have sent more than 300,000 messages with no "resting" mechanism - doing that means you haven't tuned your qmail system for the load. The problem does not have to do with SMTP but with qmail local queue handling. If you send messages to many users and the bounce address is set to some address handled by the same server, you will be starting to get bounces to the same machine and thus the same qmail server. The way to solve this is to put the bounce address point to some address that is handled by a different server or even to nowhere. Using a spare server for the actual delivery reduces that problem too. It has everything to do with qmail local queue handling. I have had no problems when both the VERP address and sending machine are the same, providing I tune the qmail queues to a reasonable number. VERP is very useful to handle bounces, no separate machines are required, you just have to think about your bandwidth. The way to solve this is use your intelligence. A stop/start sceme as you originally proposed is a kludge at best to an easily managable problem. I don't think you are getting the point of stop/start. If you flood the delivery queue with 300,000, no more incoming and outgoing mail will be handled until all the delivery to all recipients that you queued are handled. That may take hours depending on how hard is to deliver to all recipients. If you have a dedicated server for the bulk delivery, that may not be a problem for, but if you have other types of messages coming and going of the same server, everything will be stalled. BTW, if you are personalizing the messages, there is no need to user VERP because you are already sending the messages separately and so you may as well personalize the return path address. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: multiple entry forms !!
On 01/27/2003 09:20 PM, Scott wrote: hi looking for some advice I have a site in progress. user to it have to enter a LOT of information (it will contain a club directory) in order to try and make it a less unpleasant experience for the user, I want to give them 7 smaller input forms, each one following the other what would be the correct way to do this, one very large, complex coded php conditional form that does everything, or several smaller ones ? if I use one form, it will conatin rather a lot of code, but execution would all be handled by the form itself but if I use multiple smaller forms, each form would need to process the previous forms input, and then display it's inputs for entry I am also using sessions, which adds a little to complexity any general good coding practice tips/links would be helpful If you mean a form split in multiple pages, you may want to try this class because it provides exactly that, either in sequential (Wizard) mode with |Next >|, |< Back|, |Finish >>| buttons, or in random access (tabbed pages) mode where you can go from any form page to any other with Edit, Update, Cancel buttons: http://www.phpclasses.org/multipageforms -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Advice on uploaded files
I writting a php program for a small insurance company and they want to receive uploaded digital photos. Should I store the photos in a mysql database or in a directory on the hard drive? If you have experience with this any advice would be appreciated.
[PHP] Re: Best PHP db wrapper?
Hello, On 01/30/2003 02:48 AM, John Wells wrote: Trying to decide between wrappers for a rather large application, and wanted some input from the group as I haven't used any of these to any degree. So far, I've found PearDB, metabase, adodb, and MDB. What's the best option? My main concerns are speed and good community support. If you are concerned about speed, I think you should not bother to use a database wrapper because all of them add overhead due to the flexibility they provide. The more is the flexibility, the more overhead may be added. If on the other hand you are looking for database application portability so you do not have to rewrite your application if you switch databases, maintainability and thus development speed, you may want to try Metabase or MDB which is a Metabase version with PEAR-DB like API. Metabase lets you write truely portable database application. Other provide some level of portability but not up to the level that Metabase provide. One unique feature of Metabase is that it provide very easy and portable database schema management. This means that in practice you can easily describe your database schema with tables, fields, indexes and sequences in a very XML based format and Metabase installs the schema for you. Later, if you want to change your schema by adding/removing/altering any of the schema objects, you can simply alter the schema definition and Metabase will apply the changes without affecting any data inserted after the database schema was installed for the first time or updated for the last time. Furthermore, if you are looking for very fast database application development support, you may also want to look into Metastorage. This is a database API generator application that lets you model your database applications in the form of classes of objects that basically wrap around your database tables providing functions that you specify that your application need to manipulate the table rows as objects of such classes. All you need to do is to specify in a very simple XML format, the classes with the variables you need, validation rules, relationships between classes and the functions of the operations your application needs, and Metastorage generates all the code of the classes for you, including the code to install and maintain the database schema. For now, Metastorage generates code based on Metabase but in the future it will generate compatible code that just uses calls to the native database PHP API functions, thus achieving maximum speed as you need while also assuring true portability. Either Metabase and Metastorage are integrated in the same project repository that you may learn all about it here: http://www.meta-language.net/ -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: XML PHP question
Hello, On 01/30/2003 01:17 PM, Hardik Doshi wrote: Can you please tell me what is the best way of working with XML technology using PHP? I am not clear about integration of these two technologies. Suggest some books or links or good tutorials. Either of these books reviewed here are very good and recommended: http://en.static.phpclasses.org/products.html/id/1861007213.html http://en.static.phpclasses.org/products.html/id/0735712271.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mailing with SMTP server requiring authentication
Hello, On 02/02/2003 02:32 PM, Johan köhne wrote: Is it possible and if so, how to send emails through SMTP servers that require authentication (logging in)? Not via mail(). You may want to try this class for composing and sending messages that comes with a wrapper function named smtp_mail() that emulates the mail() function except that it send the message through a SMTP server of your choice letting you specify the authentication credentials as you need: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage You also need this: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: relayed mail question
Hello, On 02/03/2003 07:57 AM, Wmb wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Name service error for MAIL.rtinsmetsers.com: Host not found Because there is no DNS record for the domain MAIL.rtinsmetsers.com . -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: PHP Application Server
Hello, On 02/05/2003 09:04 PM, Edgar Castanedo wrote: believe PHP outshines them all. I am interested in heading an opensource PHP project. Basically it is the development of a PHP application server. Currently, there is nothing out there like this for PHP which I believe is widely supported or known about. I would like to kickstart the development of this product which will take PHP to a different level. My reasons for wanting to do this are many, one of which is the fact that many other programming/scripting languages have an application server which they run on. Apache can be set up to communicate with them. PHP does not currently have this. Right now, there is only a mod_php and basic cgi integration versions. I have spoken with many people and I feel like this can take off. As a matter of fact, I have documented many of my ideas and would like to share them with all of you. Yes, people really lacks of application server "mode" where you can run persistent scripts outside of the Web server. There are some attempts to this but I was not impressed by any. Things that an application server should do is to manage persistent resources to handle special application requests keeping the status of resources in memory to avoid repeated expensive data fetching from slow storage containers like databases. It should handle request serving distribution with balancing and failover, automated request scheduling. I don't know what you have in mind, but I think it would be appropriate to develop a new SAPI driver that would make PHP run as standalone daemon accepting many custom protocol requests in parallel. All this is better said than done because it is not a trivial matter. In any case, good luck. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Application Server
Hello, On 02/05/2003 09:44 PM, Edgar Castanedo wrote: Thanks for your reply. I know that this is going to be a huge task, but I am hoping that together with the nature of the Open Source community, we can build an app server which is comparable, if not better than one of the commercial app servers on the commercial markets. I'd really like to hear anyone else's feedback. Thanks for yours Manuel. BTW... a standalone daemon is exactly what I have in mind. I am in the process of creating the website for the project. I will have all of the info there. I'll post the link when it is up. Here are a few tips for a successful Open Source project: - Do not do it just to earn recognition in the Open Source community or else you may be seriously disappointed. Do it because you really need it. Once it is useful to you, chances are that it will be already useful to others. So, focus on making it useful for you. - Do not announce anything until you have it running doing something useful. Forget about wasting time on putting a Web site up now. You will just open expectations on something that you may end up realizing that it is not feasible or you do not have the time and motivation to go ahead. - Do no expect the world to embrace your project just because it is Open Source. Most people do not really care if the source is open. What they care is that the project is free as in free beer and is useful to them. As for contributors, they will not appear any time soon and certainly not in quantity. It is natural that in the beginning you will get an average of 1 real contributor out of 1000 non-contributing users. - Make it modular, not just because it is a good way to define the project architecture, but also because it make its viable and easier for other developers to extend your project without many dependencies on the core of the project. Finally, as in every software project, nothing happens until somebody writes code, so do not get back here until you have something to show . :-) -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: possible mail() bug
Hello, On 02/11/2003 07:49 PM, Matt Phillips wrote: I created a script that sent the contents of the form via the mail(). when I created it the server was running PHP 4.1.2. The server I am on was upgraded to ver 4.2.2. When that happend the script stop working correctly. It appeared to work, but the email never arrived. So, I wrote a simple script that looked that this: it would always show sent, but the message never arrived. My orginal script used PEAR, but since PEAR uses the mail() I think that this is problem. Probably your server is not configured to send the message properly. You may want to try this class that provides alternative means to send messages like using the sendmail program directly, qmail or SMTP instead of using the mail() function. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: I need examples of WRITING to XML wth PHP
Hello, On 02/13/2003 10:52 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: I see tons of examples of how to read in an xml schema and use the variables and such, but how do I then change values and re-save the schema again? Can someone point me at a simple but function form that simply reads a .xml file, populates the form, and allows you to change values in the form and then resave the .xml file again. This seems like it should be so basic, yet I can't find anything... Thanks in advance. If you want to compose and save an XML document, you may want to try this class: http://www.phpclasses.org/xmlwriter -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: HTML Mail problem
Hello, On 02/14/2003 01:56 PM, Mark McCulligh wrote: If I send a HTML email using either mail() or pear mail to an email account of someone who is on my email server it does not get delivered right. But if I send a HTML email to an external email address it is fine. It also works fine with plain text email, only if you send a HTML format email. I have even setup pear mail not to use the mail function but link right to qmail's bin folder. I can also send HTML between users in HTML using Outlook fine, only if PHP sends do I have problem. I am using PHP 4.3.0 and qmail as my email server. Has anyone any idea of were to start looking for why this is happening. Again this only happen if it is a HTML format email and it is to an internal user, thus my email server routes it without leaving the server. Never send HTML only messages. It is possible that there maybe a spam filter in your server blocking HTML only messages. In the worst case, always try to send a message with a plain text and a HTML alternative parts. You may want to try this class to learn how to do it right. This class also works around some bugs of mail() function. There is also a subclass for delivery with qmail-inject program: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: HTML Mail problem
Hello, On 02/15/2003 03:27 AM, Mark McCulligh wrote: I am sending both text and HTML. The message I get looks like this: boundary="=_ec9ac598a5bbb069fd9a696b254780ef" --=_ec9ac598a5bbb069fd9a696b254780ef Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit TEST MESSAGE WAS HERE --=_ec9ac598a5bbb069fd9a696b254780ef Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="=_74b5fb5ddc651b2065ec31d700d8d15c" --=_74b5fb5ddc651b2065ec31d700d8d15c Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ??? etc As you can see both are being displayed including some of the header info. Any idea of how this happened. As I mentioned HTML messages should have an alternative text part, so this seems ok. I think that your problem is that your actually delivery method is doing something wrong. Have you tried the class I mentioned? It provides work around for some problematic situations. Regards, Manuel Lemos Mark. "Manuel Lemos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello, On 02/14/2003 01:56 PM, Mark McCulligh wrote: If I send a HTML email using either mail() or pear mail to an email account of someone who is on my email server it does not get delivered right. But if I send a HTML email to an external email address it is fine. It also works fine with plain text email, only if you send a HTML format email. I have even setup pear mail not to use the mail function but link right to qmail's bin folder. I can also send HTML between users in HTML using Outlook fine, only if PHP sends do I have problem. I am using PHP 4.3.0 and qmail as my email server. Has anyone any idea of were to start looking for why this is happening. Again this only happen if it is a HTML format email and it is to an internal user, thus my email server routes it without leaving the server. Never send HTML only messages. It is possible that there maybe a spam filter in your server blocking HTML only messages. In the worst case, always try to send a message with a plain text and a HTML alternative parts. You may want to try this class to learn how to do it right. This class also works around some bugs of mail() function. There is also a subclass for delivery with qmail-inject program: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: forking sendmail
Hello,
On 02/16/2003 12:15 AM, Brendon wrote:
I've been trying to fork sendmail because DNS checks cause it to be slow
delivering messages...
Here's what i've tried, and many other variations...
$str = "to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nfrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nsubject: test";
exec('sendmail -i -t $str >& /dev/null&');
Has anyone successfully acomplished something like this? ideas?
You are duplicating a function that sendmail already provides given the
right switches. Anyway, if you want to raise the message delivery
throughput, the best you can do is to use the deferred mode so it does
not take a long time to queue the messages and then sendmail will take
care of the delivery next time it runs the queue.
In that case you may want to look at this class for composing and
sending messages that comes with sub-class to deliver with sendmail
program directly. It comes with options to let you choose the
appropriate sendmail delivery mode:
http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage
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[PHP] Re: HTML Mail problem
Hello, On 02/15/2003 03:10 PM, Mark McCulligh wrote: I downloaded your mail class and ran the test_html_mail_message.php page. It worked! Like you said I am probably getting one of the mail() function bugs or something. Very interesting that I can send external fine but not internal. Does the pear mail use the normal PHP mail() function to send? I thought I read it somewhere. If it does this is why when I used pear mail to send I got the same error. I have no idea because that is an odd situation. The best you can do is to analyse mail logs while you send the message. Any ways your class works for I will use it. That's great. This class has been used by so many users that over time several glitches have been ironed out. I use it to send about 2 million messages a month to many tens of thousands of site subscribers. If for some reason it does not work, I get immediate complains from several concerned users. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Duh uuh ?
Hello, On 02/16/2003 03:25 AM, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: How do I call this? http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/file/2202.html calendar; //gives me nothing. Prints html header and that's it. It's a class and obviously I don't know what I'm doing :) Have you tried contacting the author? He's probably the person that can help you more than anybody else. There are other calendar classes like this one that comes with examples: http://www.phpclasses.org/calendargenerator -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: forking sendmail
Hello,
On 02/17/2003 07:04 AM, Brendon wrote:
I've been trying to fork sendmail because DNS checks cause it to be
slow delivering messages...
Here's what i've tried, and many other variations...
$str = "to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nfrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nsubject: test";
exec('sendmail -i -t $str >& /dev/null&');
Has anyone successfully acomplished something like this? ideas?
You are duplicating a function that sendmail already provides given
the right switches. Anyway, if you want to raise the message delivery
throughput, the best you can do is to use the deferred mode so it does
not take a long time to queue the messages and then sendmail will take
care of the delivery next time it runs the queue.
In that case you may want to look at this class for composing and
sending messages that comes with sub-class to deliver with sendmail
program directly. It comes with options to let you choose the
appropriate sendmail delivery mode:
http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage
Thanks for that. I'll look at it and see if I can modify it for my needs.
The problem isn't sendmail priority. The system isn't doing anything
and sendmail isn't doing anything. The problem is that it takes
sendmail awhile for it to respond. No. sendmail isn't broke, it just
has to do a lot of thinking before it talks to a client. I want to
remove that problem from the equation by puting sendmail in the
background once its called.
What I am telling you is that sendmail itself can act that way given
that you pass the right command line switches when you invoke it.
The class above lets you tell sendmail to act that way but usually it is
better to tell it to queue the message instead of trying to deliver it
right away because if you attempt to deliver many messages at once you
can exhaust your server resources easily and your script will break.
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[PHP] Re: emptying jammed mailbox by PHP?
Hello, On 02/17/2003 11:27 PM, Chris Hayes wrote: hi, maybe not the most professional way but my mailbox is jammed and i want to clear it. My ISP host is doing some office refurnishing and needs all his attention to pick the right color hues. So i thought maybe i can send a simple POP command to delete all mails in the mailbox? It's 14000 mails since last thursday! Maybe using mr Lemos' POP script class? Yes, the class maybe a better solution than most e-mail programs to delete so many messages in the server. Make sure you get an updated version from here as there are some old versions elsewhere. http://www.phpclasses.org/pop3class Make sure you quit the POP3 connection properly with the class or else the server may not commit the delete requests when you disconnect. My email client eudora complains it cannot get a 'lock'- mailbox in use. This can be the mail subsystem thingy keeping sending itself a warning email. Ideas? This means that there is some program accessing your mailbox at the time. if you are not sure what program that may be, ask your system administration for help or else there will be no program that will be able to delete your messages. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] File upload problem
There may be several reasons why it doesn't work but the first thing I noticed is that
"action" is blank. You need to have this defined.
John M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello,
I have the code below. It's a simple file upload. But it doesn't work.
Before the line if(isset( $Submit )) is an echo which can I read. But after
choosing a file and press a submit nothing happens. Why is if(isset(
$Submit )) always false? Maybe my apache or php config is wrong?
I use WinXp Prof, Apache 2.0.43, PHP 4.2.3, safe_mode is on , upload_tmp_dir
is "c:\tmp\" and upload_max_filesize is 2M in PHP config file.
Thanks!
[input]
[input]
echo "Before submit
\n";
if(isset( $Submit ))
{
echo "After submit
\n";
if ($_FILES['imagefile']['type'] == "image/gif"){
copy ($_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name'],
"files/".$_FILES['imagefile']['name'])
or die ("Could not copy");
echo "Name: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['name']."";
}
else {
echo "";
echo "Could Not Copy, Wrong Filetype
(".$_FILES['imagefile']['name'].")";
}
}
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[PHP] Re: Zend Encoder
Hello, On 02/24/2003 01:51 PM, Thomas Johnsson wrote: This might sound a bit paranoid, but since I don't know how it works, i'll ask anyway. If I encrypt a file using the Zend Encoder, is there anyone at zend who can view it, or it it an unreversable encryption? Sure. Actually it is technically possible to get your code decrypted because after all that is what happens before it is executed. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: MIME help needed please...
Hello, On 02/23/2003 08:01 PM, Shawn McKenzie wrote: I got this from the user contributed notes in the php.net manual. It seems to work fine most of the time, but Eudora and Pegasus users either get mangled attachments or no attachments. Can anyone see a problem (most files are zip, but sometimes tar.gz or sit) I tried using Content-Type: application/zip with the same results. I'm thinking it is some issue with the headers, content-types, boundaries or something. Or maybe Pegasus/Eudora don't understand MIME or base64 (doubtful)??? It could be one of many bugs of the mail() function. You may want to try this class for composing and sending MIME messages as it works around some of those bugs: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mail (), BBC: recipients not receiving my Newsletter
Hello, On 02/26/2003 07:40 PM, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote: I wrote a small form which dumps data to a php script that uses mail () to send an html newsletter, so far is working except that it's not sending to BCC: headers, in my form I have a field to enter a comma delimited email list, after submiting the form this list is stored under one variable $emaillist, and in my php script I used $headers .= "Bcc: ".$emaillist."\r\n"; then I call mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); I don't receive an error message but my email list is not being sent, what I'm doing wrong ? It sounds like one of those bugs of the mail function but it is hard to tell what can it be with so little information. Anyway, you may want to try this class for composing and sending e-mail messages that comes with workaround for many problems of the mail() function: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: using php to rotate ad banners
Hello, On 02/26/2003 07:58 PM, Joseph Bannon wrote: I recently created some scripts to rotate ad banners on my site. One script is called show.php, which serves the banner. The other is called click.php, which redirects the people to the proper site for the banner they clicked on. Some people have noticed that when they click on the banner, they go to another site. Others have noticed that they just get returned back to the page that they just were at. I test it without any problems. I have been doing the redirecting using cookies. The script show.php puts the cookie on their computer. The script click.php gets the cookie and redirects them to the proper place when clicked. Should I be using cookies or sessions to do this? I think the problem is that some people have their browser set to not accept cookies which is why they get directed to other places. Why don't you just use phpAdsNew? http://www.phpadsnew.com/ -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Mail (), BBC: recipients not receiving my Newsletter
Hello, On 02/27/2003 02:22 PM, Ricardo Fitzgerald wrote: I've dl your class and read some of your test scripts, but it's not working at all I tested using test_personalized_bulk_mail.php And I got :'Error: it was not possible to send email message' You most likely have a PHP configuration problem. It is hard to tell before you describe your system. Is it Windows or Unix/Linux? What do you have configured in the php.ini file. Anyway, if you are using Windows, which is my guess, you need to send the message via an SMTP server. If you have it configured to send via a working SMTP server, you may be having one of many types problems that can only be cleared with the some information about that error. In that case, try using in the script of that class named test_smtp_message.php changing it to use your SMTP server and set the smtp_debug variable to 1 so you can see the dialog with the SMTP server. That should help figuring what is your problem. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: using php to rotate ad banners
Hello, On 02/27/2003 04:27 PM, Joseph Bannon wrote: Why don't you just use phpAdsNew? Because I prefer to write it myself so I can learn more. You can learn more studying the solutions provided by those that already attempted to implement the same problem. Just study phpAdsNew and you will learn more than you will possible learn from this list as this is not a trivial issue as you may imagine. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mailling question
Hello, On 02/28/2003 11:10 AM, Mathieu Dumoulin wrote: Allright, we managed to get to send emails thru an SMTP, but now we need to know which email DID get to the recipient and which didn't. Our smtp class supports basic error message but as soon as the message is outbound from this server, which is most oftenly the case, the class always returns success. Allright we can live with that. But our mass mailing software using this class needs to keep track of which client of our numerous members gets the email. The only solution we though of which is very risky, is to: Setup a mass mailing account for each client and send emails as if they where the mass mailer Then a robot is in charge of scanning the inbox for returned postmaster messages and parse it to find the error such as "unknown user". I do that, except that I make the message return path be in some domain handled by a catch-all POP mailbox. The return path is also set in such way that it identifies the exact address of the subscriber that is bouncing. I don't advise sending via SMTP unless you do not have an alternative (when you are using Windows) because it is very slow to queue messages. Sending to your local mailer queue (sendmail, qmail, postfix, etc..) can be much faster. Anyway, regardless of the way you send your messages, you may want to try this class that knows how to set the return-path address depending of the sending methods that you use (mail(), sendmail, SMTP, qmail, etc...). http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mail function and Bcc restriction?
Hello, On 03/01/2003 08:35 AM, Mirza Muharemagic wrote: Hi all, are there any restrictions for mail function, when I use Bcc? how many email adresses can i put in Bcc, are there any PHP restriction, or just memory restriction, or something else? Put them all in a single Bcc: header separating them with commas , . -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mail() Failing to connect
Hello, On 02/28/2003 05:24 PM, Gary wrote: Does anyone have any idea of why I may be getting this error, when my scripts ran perfectly fine before (i don't know what). Is there some kind of setting in my mail program that may have changed? I'm using Outlook with Exchange Server. Warning: Failed to Connect in d:\apache\htdocs/emailtest.php on line 43 Either you have not configured the SMTP server right in php.ini or that may be a bug in the mail() function. Either way, you may want to try this class that comes with a sub class to send via SMTP. You can enable the debug mode to see the SMTP dialog so you can figure what is the problem: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage Use it in conjunction with this: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Calendar
Hello, On 03/01/2003 07:28 PM, Jason D. Williard wrote: Is there an easy way to create a calendar in PHP, such as a calendar function? All I need is a dynamically created calendar to link to other pages. You may want to try this class that you customize in a sub-class to do whatever you want as demonstrated in the example: http://www.phpclasses.org/calendarclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mail() in Linux
Hello, On 03/04/2003 10:47 PM, Terry Lau wrote: > Hello, >I want to use the mail() in my Linux computer.But I don't know how to > set the php.ini file to enable it.I am using the SMTP server provided by > ISP. Do I need to setup my own mail server? You do not need a SMTP server to send messages. SMTP is only needed to receive or relay messages. In Linux sendmail or a similar program can send the messages for you. Usually your default php.ini configuration will work. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: html mail
Hello, On 03/10/2003 10:47 AM, Ian a. gray wrote: I am quite new to php and I am trying to find a way of sending details of a web form over e-mail in both text and html format. There are numerous sites on the web that try and explain how to do this but they are worded very complicated and to be honest I haven't found one that is particularly good. I want to send an e-mail that contains html code, with the option of attatching images and other files as well as a text version of the email so that the viewer can read the same e-mail whether or not he can view html email or not. Any ideas? Try this class that does exactly what you ask and comes with easy to understand examples to get you started with it very quickly: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Persistent values between executions
Hello, On 03/10/2003 01:30 PM, Mike Mannakee wrote: I have some sets of values that I have stored in several tables in a mySQL database. These don't often change, but are referenced on every single page view. While each call is quick, as a gross the load on the server is too high. I would like to know if there is a way to have these sets of values remain persistent in the server's memory between calls from browsers, like environment variables, to reduce the back and forth calls to mySQL. As the data from the calls are almost always the same, it would seem easier this way. Any thoughts? Comments? RTFM suggestions? You may want to try this cache class. You can take any variable and serialize it so it can be stored for later retrieval without querying your database. http://www.phpclasses.org/filecacheclass Usually I do not recommend caching just variables. For instance, if your variables will be used to generate portions of HTML pages, it would be more efficient to cache those portions of HTML data instead of the variables that is only used to regenerate such HTML data. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Form input security
Hello, On 03/09/2003 04:18 PM, Chris Cook wrote: When using forms, when do I have to worry about cleaning up user data? I know to use escapeshellarg() when using system functions, but how about when using the user data for database inserts? Also, if I do not insert the data into the database or use any system commands, do I still need to clean the data? Of course you have to assure that data used in SQL queries is formatted properly or else your applications may be vulnerable to hacker exploits often known as SQL injections. If you need to validate form data to assure it is formatted properly, you may want to try this forms generation and validation class that does most of the work for you: http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration Data to be inserted in text fields also needs to be properly quoted and escaped to prevent SQL injection of commands that make your database execute arbitrary actions that may compromise your server security. Database text data quoting depends on the database you use. If you use a database abstraction layer package like this you may call a function to do the appropriate quoting independently of the type of database you use: http://www.phpclasses.org/metabase -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Valid Email Question
Hello, On 03/11/2003 11:04 PM, Stephen wrote: Is there anyway you can email a certain email a user enters, see if it bounces back, and if it does, tell the user to enter a valid username? I've always wanted to do this but I'm not sure how to see if it bounces back. You may want to try this class that does precisely that. Some times it may not be conclusive but when it determines that an e-mail address is not accepted you can rely on that conclusion. http://www.phpclasses.org/emailvalidation -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: SMTP Authenticate
Hello, On 03/15/2003 01:43 PM, Aitor Cabrera wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the mail() funtion but I can only use this funtion the email myself (the same email that I put in the php.ini file). I f I try to email someone else I get an error 530 delivery not allowed to non-local recipient, try authenticating -7 How can I authenticate myselft? Which is the SMTP comand to do it and how do I use it? Thanks!! mail() does not support authentication. You may want to try this class that lets you specify the authentication credentials and comes with a wrapper function named smtp_mail() that sends the message to a SMTP server that you specify: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage You also need this class to do the actual SMTP delivery: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] mail(); works, but only for mails to my (mail)server
Hey you guys! First, I have to say, that php.net gave me a lot of support in the last few weeks and months. It's been great to suck information from your guys' website! Thanx a lot! This weekend, I've been fighting with some really weird problem though... I installed a few mail(); actions on my website plus in some projects I'm working on. I have one really big problem though... Everything works fine until I want to send a mail to another mailserver than mine. So, it only works for my own (mail)server - how the hell is that possible? And: can I fix that? Do I have to include special headers? Thank you very much for yar answer! Greetz Manuel, Berne, Switzerland
[PHP] Re: Zend
Hello, On 07/01/2003 02:27 AM, Gladk wrote: Can anybody give me direct link for downloading Zend Optimizer. I tried to do it a lot of times from the official site, but after accepting agreement nothing happens Maybe Zend site has some alergy to your browser or vice-versa. :-) BTW, if you are looking for optimizers, you may want to try also Turck. This is an all in one Open Source PHP extension, that not only does PHP code optimizing like Zend Optimizer but also does code caching, code encoding, content caching, session handling in shared memory, etc... All good things that help to make your site fly: http://www.turcksoft.com/en/e_mmc.htm -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Image Verification (On Submit)
Hello, On 07/02/2003 12:00 AM, Joel Louie M Miranda wrote: Can someone give me a suggestion or a howto where could I get some idea on how to do image verification? Like on yahoo.com signup where you need to enter the text on the image to process your order. This class does what you want: Class: CAPTCHA http://www.phpclasses.org/captcha -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Minimizing Database Hits
Hello, On 07/01/2003 07:41 PM, Ralph wrote: I wrote class that contains a function that retrieves users shopping cart items from database and then returns an array with qty, item number , item name, etc. So now whenever I want to retrieve the users cart I use the following: $cart_contents = $cart->get_cart_contents(); I then iterate through $cart_contents to display info. Now I am trying to minimize the number of hits to the database so my question is, am I querying the database every time I call on $cart_contents? A common solution is to serialize() and cache the results in disk files. For arbitrary data caching, you may want to try this class: http://www.phpclasses.org/filecacheclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Email troubles
Hello, On 06/30/2003 07:30 PM, Sparky Kopetzky wrote: I'm getting this error while sending email with mail(): Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied in (path to my program) How do I turn relaying on?? I think that means you need to authenticate. The mail() function has no authentication support. You may want to try this class that comes with a subclass for sending messages via SMTP that supports authentication. It comes also with a wrapper function named smtp_mail() that emulates the mail() function so you can use it as replacement without changing your scripts too much: http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage You also need this for message delivery. http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: mysql detect
Hello, On 07/02/2003 04:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what command in linux , to see default direcktory instalation mysql database dan mysql library ./configure ? -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: OCI_ASSOC returns key with upper case string
Hello, On 07/04/2003 08:38 PM, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: First let me say that I am not sure if this is PHP problem or Oracle. I posted this earlier in php-general, but after looking at the available mailing lists again, I thought this forum would be more appropriate. Sorry if someone get double post. I have a class that contains API for using postgresql, mysql, or oracle database so switching database should be "in theory" just changing an argument for me. To make this sort, let just say that the return of a SELECT statement is always in associative array, using either : "pg_fetch_assoc" for pgsql "mysql_fetch_assoc" for mysql "ocifetchinto" with OCI_ASSOC flag for Oracle 9 Now, pg_fetch_assoc and mysql_fetch_assoc return the associate array with the key in lower case. But ocifetchinto returns the key in UPPER case. So this discrepancy makes my code not as portable as I would like it. Furthermore, the example here: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.ocifetchinto.php doesn't even work, because it uses lower case as the associative array key. Why is this the case? Is this PHP problem or Oracle config problem? Either way, can anyone suggest a solutions? Of course I can do all kind of array manipulation in my API to make the key lower case, but that wouldn't be very elegant and efficient No, that is just the way Oracle returns column names. It is not possible to provide a portable solution to return row in associative arrays because not only the column names case may be mapped, removed the table names or even have the column names truncated. That is the reason why Metabase never provided a function to return rows as associative arrays, as Metabase is focused on real database application portability. http://www.phpclasses.org/metabase -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] ANN: Metastorage generates form handling classes
Hello, Metastorage generates form handling classes In the continuation of the work to achieve further reduction of application development efforts, the new release of Metastorage is now capable of generating automatically classes that are able to handle Web forms that serve as user interface to create new persistent objects. Complete announcement article: http://www.meta-language.net/news-2003-07-10-metastorage.html Screenshots: http://www.meta-language.net/screenshots.html Note: although it is not mentioned, the code generated by Metastorage should work with PEAR::MDB via Metabase wrapper. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Mailing list server with PHP frontend
Hello, On 07/11/2003 08:47 PM, Juan Nin wrote: I want to know if anyone knows about a good mailing list manager that has got a PHP administration frontend I've found many PHP scripts for sending newsletters and announcementes, but that's it's not what I want I want a system like Mailman, Sympa or Majordomo (the mailing list server may be programmed in Perl or whatever), but it must provide a PHP frontend for administration, subscription, etc You may want to try this class for creating lists with the ezmlm mailing list manager. It has support for creating and editing the lists properties and even has a SOAP interface for accessing the subscriptions from remote machines. http://www.phpclasses.org/ezmlmmanager It would be great if messages are stored in a database like MySQL and it must be free software Does this exist?? ezmlm has MySQL bindings for managing the subscription records. The messages are stored in disk files though. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Mailing list server with PHP frontend
Hello, On 07/13/2003 02:37 AM, Juan Nin wrote: You may want to try this class for creating lists with the ezmlm mailing list manager. It has support for creating and editing the lists properties and even has a SOAP interface for accessing the subscriptions from remote machines. http://www.phpclasses.org/ezmlmmanager ezmlm has MySQL bindings for managing the subscription records. The messages are stored in disk files though. seems nice, but the problem is I'm not using qmail, I'm using Postfix, and ezmlm works with qmail.. :( Apparently there is a way to make it work with Postfix too: http://www.dmumford.com/tech/ezmlm-postfix.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Send mail using external server
Hello, On 07/14/2003 11:27 AM, Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: Hi there! I'm developing a program that has a kind of mail client from where users can send mails and get a blind copy in their e-mail boxes. The program uses mail() in those servers having a SMTP installed in the very same server. I would like to let people send mails even if the server is not able to handle them. To do that I've googled around and found the following script (see below). The problem is that blind copies don't reach destination, mails in the To: field arrive well, mails in the BCC: desappear and never reach the mailbox (nor get back :-? Does anyone know what's going wrong? Thanks. That script has lots of problems from wrong line endings to the inability to handle multiline SMTP responses. You may want to use this SMTP class instead: http://www.phpclasses.org/smtpclass Actually, if you want to use a direct replacement for the mail() function you may want to try this other class in conjunction as it comes with a wrapper function named smtp_mail() that emulates the mail() function but lets you send it via SMTP directly. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML email with Outlook
Hello, On 07/15/2003 07:48 PM, Tim Thorburn wrote: I've made a PHP script that sends out an automatic email through my servers cron system, it works well, but I thought I'd try to do some HTML email to get things to line up a little better. To do so, I added the following line in my mail() command: -Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 When I check the messages sent out with Eudora, the HTML email comes in perfectly. However, when I check with Outlook Express 6 - I get the actual HTML code rather than the nicely formatted email that I had created. Should I be using another line in my mail() command? I've recieved HTML email before with Outlook Express on my machine without changing any settings at all. Also, I had sent an email from my script to hotmail and the HTML email worked fine there too. That looks like one of the bugs of the mail() function that never got fixed. In that case you may want to try this class that has built-in workarounds for some of the mail() function bugs. http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
