Re: pipe mail / get input from stdin

Dieter, here is what i did. I wanted to parse an email and gets the different fields. The email is piped into the script, it works perfectly, and no bugs have been reported to me about it, hope it will help you: I know there is french stuff, but the PHP code has no boundries ;-))) Nicolas.: #!/usr/local/bin/php -q <? #config #on sort les variables du mail $fp = fopen('php://stdin','r'); $fout = fopen("./fillupdb.html", "w"); $line=0; fwrite($fout, "<html><body>"); while(!feof($fp)) { $data=fgets($fp,4096); $data=chop($data); if (eregi("^Name: ",$data)) {$data=eregi_replace( "Name: ", "", $data);$name=$data;} if (eregi("^Owner: ",$data)) {$data=eregi_replace( "owner: ", "", $data);$owner=$data;} if (eregi("^Section: ",$data)) {$data=eregi_replace( "Section: ", "", $data);$section=$data;} if (eregi("^Origin: ",$data)) {$data=eregi_replace( "Origin: ", "", $data);$origin=$data;} if (eregi("^Version Date: ",$data)) {$data=eregi_replace( "version date: ", "", $data);$verdate=$data;} if (eregi("^Version Number: ",$data)) {$data=eregi_replace( "version number: ", "", $data);$vernumb=$data;} if (eregi("^Version Comments:",$data)) {$data=eregi_replace( "version comments:", "", $data);$begin_comment="go";$ligne=$line;} if ($data=="__END_OF_RECORD__"){$begin_comment="stop";} $line=$line+1; #begin to read after the version comment: if (($begin_comment=="go") and (($ligne+1)==$line)) { $ligne=$ligne+1; $resultcomment.=$data." ";} #on est a la fin d'un morceau if ($begin_comment=="stop") { #on inscrit les datas dans fout fwrite($fout,"-----------------------------<br>"); fwrite($fout,$name);fwrite($fout,"<br>"); fwrite($fout,$owner);fwrite($fout,"<br>"); fwrite($fout,$section);fwrite($fout,"<br>"); fwrite($fout,$origin);fwrite($fout,"<br>"); fwrite($fout,$verdate);fwrite($fout,"<br>"); fwrite($fout,$vernumb);fwrite($fout,"<br>"); fwrite($fout,$resultcomment);fwrite($fout,"<br>"); fwrite($fout,"-----------------------------<br>"); #on reinitialise les vars $resultcomment=""; $begin_comment=""; $ligne=""; } } #on ferme les fichiers fwrite($fout, "<html><body>"); fclose($fout); fclose($fp); ?> > Can someone explain, why this is working when started > as a shell script manually on the shell (saves input from > stdin properly to a file) but not when pipeing (e.g. utilizing > /etc/aliases)an email into it (creates an empty file!)? > > On the other hand, the second (unix shell) script below > works just fine when triggered by an email. > > The line in /etc/aliases is something like: > xyz: "|/path/to/my/script" > > [Of course, I have PHP as CGI..] > > Thank you very much!!! > > dk > > ------------------ PHP SHELL SCRIPT -------------- > #!/usr/local/bin/php -q > <? > // tried all of these but without success! > // $fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); > // $fp = fopen("/dev/fd/0", "r"); > $fp = fopen("/dev/stdin","r"); > > while(($buf=fgets($fp, 512)) != false) { > $dump .= $buf; > } > fclose($fp); > > $fpf = fopen("/tmp/mail.txt","w"); > fputs($fpf,$dump); > fclose($fpf); > ?> > > The above should work like this one: > ------------------ SHELL SCRIPT -------------- > #!/bin/sh > LOGDIR="/tmp/mail.txt" > # > # Read stdin > # > while read LINE > do > echo $LINE >>$LOGDIR > done > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net