Joe Laudadio on Tue, 2 May 2000 12:56:47 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] /usr/bin/sendmail program w/PHP



On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jason Costomiris wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:11:12AM -0400, Brent R. Matzelle wrote:
> : Yes, the client web site that I am developing is on a web host that has
> : informed me that they do not support that function.  Instead I have to utilized
> : the PHP 'exec' function.  The program should work fine except for some reason
> : PHP causes anything within the greater-than / less-than (< >) to disappear.  
> 
> How can the web host "not support" an internal PHP function???  If they built
> PHP, it's in there.  PHP looks for sendmail as /usr/sbin/sendmail -t by
> default.

It's possible that php on that host was not compiled with support for that
function. There are plenty of "built-in" php functions that can be
explicitly included or excluded with the configure script. mail() may be
one of them, but I dont know that for certain.

mg


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