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Posted by Andy Hassall on 08/08/06 20:23
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:27:30 +0000 (UTC), sae@worf.netins.net (Scott Evans)
wrote:
>Hi! I have been asked to add some functionality to an existing web
>site. The user would like to have a form that would email them the
>results of the form. Really easy stuff to do, usually. I tried to
>run the enhancements, and did not get the results I wanted, either
>with writing the results to a log file on the server, nor in sending
>the email.
>
>In doing further research, I see that the site is being hosted on a
>windows server, and that the php appears to have a bunch of functions
>disabled, when I run phpinfo. One of the many that are disabled is
>mail, so I'm kind of stuck. Is there any sort of workaround to this,
>where the mail function is disabled, but I'd still be able to send
>email from a form?
Well, the proper answer is to ask the admin to re-enable mail, or switch
hosts. If they've disabled the mail functions, and you do some hacky workaround
to send mail anyway without asking the admins, it wouldn't be that surprising
if the admin of the server got somewhat annoyed...
>getmyinode, getopt, getrusage, extension_loaded, dl, mysql_pconnect,
>crack_check, crack_closedict, crack_getlastmessage, crack_opendict,
>fsockopen, pfsockopen, mysql_list_dbs, mysql_stat, ini_get, ini_get_all,
>ini_alter, ini_set, get_current_user, get_defined_constants,
>get_include_path, php_ini_scanned_files, php_uname, phpcredits,
>restore_include_path, set_include_path, set_time_limit, version_compare,
>zend_version, getmypid, getmyuid, getmygid, assert_options, assert, fopen,
>fwrite, fread, file, fpassthru, file, mail, opendir, readdir, closedir
If they're locking down things as basic as fopen then you'll have difficulty
communicating with the outside world in any way; you're not likely to be able
to open any sockets to even do SMTP mailing yourself.
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