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ayfine
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email to database?

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Is there an easy way in php to insert information into a database when a user sends an email to a specific address?

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Not with PHP alone. You need some way to tell your mail service/program to do something when it receives an email.
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tasairis wrote:Not with PHP alone. You need some way to tell your mail service/program to do something when it receives an email.
Is there way to do this though? And if so how?
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Depends. How is email handled on your system?
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tasairis wrote:Depends. How is email handled on your system?
I'm not really sure. I'm on a shared server from hostgator :|
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ayfine wrote:
tasairis wrote:Depends. How is email handled on your system?
I'm not really sure. I'm on a shared server from hostgator :|
Then try asking them. They can help you more than we could.
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