php with qmail and sh -c

pabcas

Hey, I'm trying to get qmail to run a php shell script.


I havent built the script yet, I'm just doing a few tests ... I seem to be able to run "hello world" scripts, and a few simple emailers / file writing scripts using the

php file.php

this executes the file and runs the code. I can also feed in arguments by using the argv[] array, and I can get it to take input, as in the phpbuilder article http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/darrell20000319.php3

My problem is that qmail runs the script through sh -c command

so if my file is email.php, qmail executes the following:

sh -c php email.php

effectively feeding the email into the script using STDIN (standard input)

The problem is that the scripts don't seem to do anything at all.. none of the functions execute, and actions that work fine when I execute them with just

php email.php

on its own ...

I'm really stumped, but this is something I really want to get working....

If I could just get an inkling as to why it's not executing the scripts...

Thanks

Paul

Kev

put a shebang line at the start of the script e.g. #!/usr/local/bin/php

and then give the script execute permission, like chmod 711 script.php

pabcas

Yeah .. I had all that done .. still wouldn't work ..

I've resolved to using perl ...

It will work, but I'm just not as confident about getting perl to do the things I want .. and it'll take a little longer.

Oh well.

dahamsta

The shell thinks that "file.php" is part of your command. Try putting the command in quotes, and using the full path to PHP. Also, don't forget to append -q to the php command line, to kill off the automatic headers.

sh -c "/path/to/php -q file.php"

(You don't need the hash-bang-path in the file if you're executing it directly from the command line, neither do you need to set execute permissions on the file -- if you can execute php and you can read the file, you can execute the file. PHP just reads it in and evaluates it.)

HTH,
adam

pabcas

I may try all these later, but I've got perl working, and it's taken my three days to even get it working.

It's a beautiful script, that hopefully when I'm done will allow me to send email to an address, it'll parse the address and update the database accordingly with subject & message ...

I've so far got the script to read the message, strip all the headers (hacked this of course), post into the database, and send a confirm email back.

What I want it to do is read the post-*-*@blast.ie email address, and post to the proper site and table accordingly.

Then I have to add some security . Which is always fun.

Thanks for your help..

dahamsta

I've so far got the script to read the message, strip all the headers (hacked this of course)

Heh, you could have pulled all that verbose from php-general, there's a function and/or class to do this in there for years. Or you could have used a section from phorummail, which comes bundled with Phorum. Spoilsport, eh?

Errah, there's more pleasure in doing it yourself anyway.

adam

pabcas

actually no .. I'm good

.. if you noticed the "hacked this of course" bit... All I did was took a script which did this, chopped off the rest of it, and started putting my own stuff in ...

But I'll remember what you told me the next time.

I feel like such a treasonous wretch getting perl to do my donkey work for me.

ah well. I suppose I'm a dishonourable coder one way or another, after all, I work on my own....

pabcas

while you're there, you wouldn't happen to know how to access global environment variables from inside what seems to be a perl sub?

If I was in php and needed $DOCUMENT_ROOT I'd just go

global $DOCUMENT_ROOT;

but perl seems to use <HOME>

or something to that effect .. can't for the life of me get it to work.

Although I'm something of a not give upper me... so I may get it before you reply. Hopefully not though.

pabcas

Ok, she's done.

I did it in perl, wasn't too bad learning the ins and outs, and the debug from the command prompt is actually more helpful than the php one....

It's an email intercept script, which takes an email, the first line of which is the administrators username and password, checks the database for the username and md5'd password, chops the username and password of the message body, updates the database, and sends a confirm email to the admin.

A real bolox to make, but a beaut in action...

Watch her sail ...


la la la ..

Bed, now