Re: PEAR error

Joao Andrade wrote:

    Hey people,

    I know there's a list for PEAR also, but it seem there's nobody there...

in 2 days only two messages, so I'll post this here and if there's a better place for this message, you tell me, alright?

    That's the deal:

    I've just got into pear, looking for a mail function with SMTP

authentication, well there is one, but it ins't working. I must confess I'm a mechanical engineer and I've very little knowledge about object oriented programming (that's what pear is about, aint't it?).

    I tried the example I found in the mail() documentation. which is:

require_once('mail.php'); $recipients = 'joao66br@yahoo.com.br';

$headers['From']    = 'centraldecaronas@terra.com.br';
$headers['To']      = 'joao66br@yahoo.com.br';

$headers['Subject'] = 'Test message'; $body = 'Testando essa bagaca!'; $params['host'] = 'smtp.sao.terra.com.br'; $params['auth'] = true; $params['username'] = 'joao66br'; $params['password'] = 'mypass'; echo "opa"; var_dump($params); // Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method $result = $mail_object =& Mail::factory('smtp', $params); if (PEAR::isError($result)) {

    print "Oops: " . $connection->getMessage() . "<br>\n";
    exit;

}

What is $connection? Try $mail_object =& Mail::factory('smtp', $params); if (PEAR::isError($mail_object)) { die($mail_object->getMessage()); } $mail_object->send($recipients,$headers,$body); if (PEAR::isError($mail_object)) { die($mail_object->getMessage()); } [ trim ]

    What is the use of the constructs such as "PEAR::isError" and

"Mail::factory" what do those "::" mean?

The techincal term for :: is "paamayim nekudotayim" (try saying that three times fast). Most people call it the scope resolution operator. You can read more about what it is and what it does at http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword.paamayim-nekudotayim.php -- Burhan Khalid phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com http://www.meidomus.com ----------------------- "Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."