Posted by William Gill on 06/23/07 17:47

William Gill wrote:
> OK forgive my ignorance, but this has been bugging me since you posted
> the solution. Could you explain the notation "php://stdin". I thought
> stdin was stdin, is there a way to differentiate?
>
> Again, forgive my ignorance.
>
> Bill
>

Never mind, I finally found the manual reference for input/output streams.


> gosha bine wrote:
>> William Gill wrote:
>>> My development machine (WinXP, Apache 2.2.4) does not have an smtp
>>> server, and I don't really want to install one if I can help it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a simple method of testing php scripts that
>>> employ mail() by simulating an smtp server and directing output to a
>>> text file or to an installed text editor.
>>
>>
>> I have the following in my php.ini
>>
>> sendmail_path = php -r
>> "file_put_contents('c:/mail.log',file_get_contents('php://stdin'),FILE_APPEND);"
>>
>>
>> this logs all emails sent via mail() to c:\mail.log
>>
>>

Thanks,

bill

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