Question

I have a php script that is going to be a cron job and it was working fine until I added the email script I have been using.

I have used the email script all over the site before but when I try and run the cron job using it from the command line it fails.

The mail script looks as followed

    <?php

require_once "Mail.php";

function sendMail($to, $from, $subject, $message) {

        $no_errors = true;

        $host = "ssl://smtp.server.com";
        $port = "465";
        $username1 = "username";
        $password = "password";

        $headers = array ('From' => '[e-mail]',
          'To' => $to,
          'Subject' => $subject);
        $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
          array ('host' => $host,
            'port' => $port,
            'auth' => true,
            'username' => $username1,
            'password' => $password));

        $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $message);

        if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {

            $no_errors = false;

            echo $mail->getMessage();

        } else {

            $no_errors = true;

         }

        return $no_errors;

        }

?>

If I comment out the include send_mail.php it works fine but doesn’t send email.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You will need to make sure that, when the script is ran from cron, it has the proper working folder set, so it can load mail.php. Using the getcwd() and chdir() functions are the two you need to use.

Usually, when ran from web browser (on an Apache server), the working directory is /var/www, but from cron, it is usually the root of the filesystem, /.