On Wednesday 11 February 2004 13:35, Dan Muey wrote:
> > I have been looking around the web for some examples of how
> > to use a PHP form to send emails using Exim installed on the
> > localhost. I have tried adding the command line to send
>
> Perl has many mail features, and is way easier to get working
> than to figure out how to get PHP to do anything. What I'd do
> if I were you is simply use a module that does an SMTP session
> with localhost, that way there's no Exim config to do.
This strategy is also easily workable in PHP, using a module that in recent
PHP versions is part of the downloaded language tarball. I don't know about
"easier to get [Perl] working"...that's a debate for another list. But I've
done several PHP applications that send mail, with no great difficulty.
Start here (for the specific modules you need):
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.php
and here (for an overview of PEAR):
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/
If you need some example code, email me off-list, since PHP coding techniques
are off-topic for the Exim list. :-)
The PEAR mail modules support a variety of techniques: local or remote SMTP
session, invocation of mail command, etc.
The PEAR libraries are installed by default when you build PHP from source;
I'm not sure of their status with a binary PHP installation, though I do know
that they come with the RPM version of PHP under SuSE 8.2 and 9.0.
Scott
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