Posted by Pablo on 06/28/07 06:56

"shimmyshack"
wrote

>
> try showing us the code that does the emailing, rather than the code
> that tries 5 times to add a serial number to the end of a string.
>

<?PHP

function serialize()

{

$file="serial.txt";

for ($try = 0; $try < 5; $try++)

{

$fp = fopen($file, "a+");

if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX)) { // do an exclusive lock

fseek($fp, 0);

$id = fread($fp, 1024);

$id++;

ftruncate($fp, 0);

fwrite($fp, strval($id));

flock($fp, LOCK_UN); // release the lock

break;

}

else

{

sleep(1);

continue;

}

}

fclose($fp);

return $id;

}

$mail_text="Dear Sirs,\nthis is my question for you...........\n\r";

$mail_text.=$_REQUEST['body_of_question']."\n\n";

$mail_text.="Serial n.".serialize()."\n\n";

$mail_subject="Questions";

$mail_to=$_REQUEST['mailto'];

$mail_from=$_REQUEST['_mailfrom'];

$sended=@mail( $mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_text, "From:
{$mail_from}\n" );

?>

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