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[mikesz at qualityadvantages.com]

Hello Tim,

Saturday, October 20, 2007, 3:13:47 PM, you wrote:

> The "equivalent" you wrote should generally result in sending either  
> zero or two emails ... which is probably not what you want.

> The code you're trying to grok is simply "send mail and if there's an
> error, increment the error counter".  A slightly more obvious way for
> writing it would be:

> $result = mail(...);
> if (! $result){
>         ++$err;
> }

> The way you re-wrote it, it says "send mail and if there's an error  
> increment the error counter.  If there isn't an error, send the mail  
> a second time".

> HTH

> -Tim

> On Oct 20, 2007, at 4:47 AM, mikesz at qualityadvantages.com wrote:

>> Greetings and Hello,
>>
>> I am converting a script to use SMTP if php mail() is not available
>> for the users of this script. I have all the active calls working so
>> that if my smtp flag is set it automatically switches to smtp and
>> sends the message with the appropriate headers etc. but part of the  
>> script is run by a
>> cron job and I see a php mail call but don't quite understand the  
>> syntax.
>> Anyone care to take a guess at translating what it does?
>>
>> It is part of a while loop and I think its combining two conditions
>> into one statement but would like confirmation.
>>
>> here is the code fragment:
>>
>> if ( !mail( $row['Email'], $row[Subj], $row[Body], "From: $site 
>> [email_notify]", "-f$site[email_notify]") )
>> ++$err;
>>
>>
>> I thinks this is the equivalent of:
>>
>> if ( !mail( $row['Email'], $row[Subj], $row[Body], "From: $site 
>> [email_notify]", "-f$site[email_notify]") )
>> {
>> ++$err;  //update the error queue
>> }
>> else
>> {
>> mail( $row['Email'], $row[Subj], $row[Body], "From: $site 
>> [email_notify]", "-f$site[email_notify]");
>> }
>>
>>
>> Has anyone seen or used this technique before? This is the first time
>> I have seen it used, though this script has a lot of short cuts that
>> make the code difficult to debug sometimes, like this one.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your comments,
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>  mikesz                          mailto:mikesz at qualityadvantages.com
>>
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Thanks very much Tim, your example is exactly what I needed.

-- 
Best regards,
 mikesz                            mailto:mikesz at qualityadvantages.com