Re: Uploading by email
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:06:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Uploading by email | ||
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In article <OLECLCPPBLAAHPKBKILKCEMDCHAA.wouter@esctoday.com>,
wouter@esctoday.com says...
> Hi,
>
> I know it's slightly not totally about PHP.. but since I wanna do it with
> PHP, i'll post it here. I was wondering if anybody can help me to accomplish
> the following:
>
> - Somebody sends an email to, for example, fotoupload@esctoday.com. This
> email has some attachments, being photo's to be added to some system.
> - Sendmail recievers the email, and sends it to some PHP script
> - This script parses the input it gets, ...
>
> Now, what would I need to do for all this to happen?
> Wouter
>
An alias in sendmail to pipe mail to 'fotoupload' to your php script, and
the command line version of php available to run the script should be a
start.
The alias will look something like:
fotoupload: "| /full/path/to/yourscript.php"
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