I want to send data to an emailaddress and save it into a MySQL database (PHP).
What is the easiest way to do this? (no form post, no curl etc., just email)
I want to send data to an emailaddress and save it into a MySQL
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I want to send data to an emailaddress and save it into a MySQL database (PHP).
What is the easiest way to do this? (no form post, no curl etc., just email)
If your server doesn’t have imap but you have an outside system which does have cron you can write a page that checks the email account and loads the data into MySQL then set up a script on a machine that does have cron to wget the mysql page once every X minutes where X is how frequently you want to load data.
Alternately if you know the emails will load quickly you can set up small one field table in your DB with a time stamp. Each time your PHP script runs it checks the time stamp and if it’s more than 5 minutes old it calls the email loading script before loading the web page.