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  • simon m
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    using same script in email handling and POST web form

    Hi All, I have a script sitting on my web server called
    auto_mail.php5. I would like this to be used two different ways.

    One way would be for a web form to call it as submit action on a form.
    I have got this working great.

    However, to get this to work I had to comment out the first line of
    the script which is #!/usr/bin/php -q

    Now the other way the script is called doesn't work any more! This
    other way is that when xxxx@beckhallma lham.com receives an email it
    forwards the email to |/home/beckhall/public_html/php/auto_mail.php5

    Since I removed that first line the forwarder never invokes the
    script! If I put the first line back in then the forwarder works but
    the web post does not. This is because the web post later does a
    HEADER("newurl" ) to do a redirect, and this fails as text has already
    been posted to the form. catch-22!

    Any suggestions? I would guess but I'm no expert that the best
    solution would be to tell the email forwarded to use php to process
    the auto_mail.php5, but I don't know how to do this! Maybe the
    forwarder to go to another script, that then calls auto_mail.php5?

    Cheers for any help,

    Simon
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    • C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)
      #2
      Re: using same script in email handling and POST web form

      On Jul 22, 3:35 pm, simon m <SIMON.MA...@us a.netwrote:
      Hi All, I have a script sitting on my web server called
      auto_mail.php5. I would like this to be used two different ways.
      >
      One way would be for a web form to call it as submit action on a form.
      I have got this working great.
      >
      However, to get this to work I had to comment out the first line of
      the script which is #!/usr/bin/php -q
      >
      Now the other way the script is called doesn't work any more! This
      other way is that when x...@beckhallma lham.com receives an email it
      forwards the email to |/home/beckhall/public_html/php/auto_mail.php5
      >
      Since I removed that first line the forwarder never invokes the
      script! If I put the first line back in then the forwarder works but
      the web post does not. This is because the web post later does a
      HEADER("newurl" ) to do a redirect, and this fails as text has already
      been posted to the form. catch-22!
      >
      Any suggestions? I would guess but I'm no expert that the best
      solution would be to tell the email forwarded to use php to process
      the auto_mail.php5, but I don't know how to do this! Maybe the
      forwarder to go to another script, that then calls auto_mail.php5?
      >
      Cheers for any help,
      >
      Simon
      forward the email to |/usr/bin/php -q /home/beckhall/public_html/php/
      auto_mail.php5

      (check the path of PHP - it may not be /usr/bin/php)

      C.

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        • simon m
          #3
          Re: using same script in email handling and POST web form

          >
          forward the email to |/usr/bin/php -q /home/beckhall/public_html/php/
          auto_mail.php5
          >
          Hi All, I just tried the above but the control panel which I think is
          cpanel X on Apache 1.3.37 (Unix) on a shared server parses out the /
          usr/bin/php -q bit when I paste it into the "forward to" box. There is
          also some help text that says no need to put the php or cgi bits in,
          but be sure to place the appropriate shebang at the top of the script.
          Argh!

          How about a php script that the email forwards to withe shebang, that
          can calls auto_mail.php5? Is there a way to do this, like #include
          another php script in another one?

          Simon

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            • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22=C1lvaro_G=2E_Vicario=22?=
              #4
              Re: using same script in email handling and POST web form

              simon m escribió:
              >forward the email to |/usr/bin/php -q /home/beckhall/public_html/php/
              >auto_mail.ph p5
              >>
              >
              Hi All, I just tried the above but the control panel which I think is
              cpanel X on Apache 1.3.37 (Unix) on a shared server parses out the /
              usr/bin/php -q bit when I paste it into the "forward to" box.
              Then you'll need to write a small shell script to launch it, let's say
              "auto_mail. sh":

              #!/bin/bash
              /usr/bin/php -q /home/beckhall/public_html/php/auto_mail.php5

              And you would forward e-mail to |/path/to/auto_mail.sh



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                • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22=C1lvaro_G=2E_Vicario=22?=
                  #5
                  Re: using same script in email handling and POST web form

                  Álvaro G. Vicario escribió:
                  Then you'll need to write a small shell script to launch it, let's say
                  "auto_mail. sh":
                  >
                  #!/bin/bash
                  /usr/bin/php -q /home/beckhall/public_html/php/auto_mail.php5
                  >
                  And you would forward e-mail to |/path/to/auto_mail.sh
                  Hmmm... Now I think about it, I'm not sure my sample script is quite
                  right... Maybe you need to pass the standard input to the *.php file :-?

                  I'm sorry, I should not be writing bash scripts when I don't have any
                  Unix box where to test them.


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                    • simon m
                      #6
                      Re: using same script in email handling and POST web form

                      sorted! I have the original script auto_mail.php5, without the shebang
                      and the webpage calls this. All works OK.

                      the email now goes to iknow_wrapper.p hp and this has the shebang in
                      it, then an include("auto_m ail.php5") in it and that's all.

                      yeah! Thanks for all the pointers. I use www.php.net as a mega
                      resource, but like a lot of documentation it only really helps when
                      you know how to do something and need to clear up the details!

                      Simon

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