scott_ttocs46 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Hi all,I am primarily a windows based programmer. But I have been playing around with unix type programming.Does anyone know of a script that allows you to add records to a database by email.I am working on a newsletter project. The publisher needs to be able to cc emails to an email account and have it automatically add the newsletter to a database.Also, it needs to be a MS Access db. Can you use PHP and MS Access together?Regards,Scott Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29263-add-record-to-db-by-email/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_ttocs46 Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 I know there is a way to do it.I have sent emails to tech support and it automatically puts it into a database. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29263-add-record-to-db-by-email/#findComment-134156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cenobitez Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Scott look into ways of reading pop email, would need a dedicated email account, and know how to parse that email as well. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29263-add-record-to-db-by-email/#findComment-134158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_ttocs46 Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 Is there a way I can shedule a script to run? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29263-add-record-to-db-by-email/#findComment-134164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cenobitez Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 A friend of mine wrote a mobile phone photo blog program, some time ago, basically all he did was set a cronjob to execute a script, the script read his inbox, parsed the mail, extracted what he needed, write the html and images to the relevant folders, and site was updated.There is no reason that cant be done to write to a DB as well.The timed is a cron job task tho :) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/29263-add-record-to-db-by-email/#findComment-134173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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