how do i

[gotornot]

I wonder if anyone can help.
im looking to send data to another page yet not disterb the current page.
Sounds confusing?
Well i want to submit an email to a script however in order to do that i have to break the while loop that is scrolling to send that data.
How do i send the data (Open another page behind the scenes) without disterbing the loop
help would be great any help even better lol

[dagon]

exec()

example:

exec('php send_email.php');

[gotornot]

how will this work can i send a variable to the page?

[gotornot]

i want this to act like a location so that it can send data or would i need to send itt o a file ie file_name.php?email=[e-mail]?

exec('file_name.php?email=$email');

will it then continue with the loop?

[dagon]

Using PHP from the command line

exec('php file_name.php [e-mail]');

$argv['1'] will contain "[e-mail]"

[gotornot]

how do i use this in the next page file and will the loop continue?

[dagon]

gotornot;10923139 wrote:

how do i use this in the next page file and will the loop continue?

the loop will continue.

[gotornot]

I know i must sound blonde but how do i call that variable in the exec page?

and just to confirm:

// get data from db
$lookq = "SELECT * FROM adr2";
$lookr = mysql_query($lookq);
while ($lookrow = mysql_fetch_array($lookr))
{
$email = $lookrow["email"];
//header("Location: http://mailgoblin.co.uk/user-sub.php?referrer=9&email=$email");
exec('php file_name.php [e-mail]');
}

Would this still work? and loop through? In the next page i wanted it sending an email and sending the data to another site etc would that still work

[dagon]

gotornot;10923168 wrote:

I know i must sound blonde but how do i call that variable in the exec page?

answered above

gotornot;10923168 wrote:

Would this still work? and loop through? In the next page i wanted it sending an email and sending the data to another site etc would that still work

why don't you just try it and see.

[gotornot]

can you explain what this does and how it functions sorry..
$argv['1'] ????

[gotornot]

$lookq = "SELECT * FROM adr2 WHERE id='2'";
$lookr = mysql_query($lookq);
while ($lookrow = mysql_fetch_array($lookr))
{
$email = $lookrow["email"];
#header("Location: http://mailgoblin.co.uk/user-sub.php?referrer=9&email=$email");
exec('php sort6.php $email');

	}

this didnt work it is designed to loop through

[gotornot]

$email = $argv['1'];
echo $email;
#$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
// select the header.
header("Location: http://mailgoblin.co.uk/user-sub.php?referrer=9&email=$email");

that is on the next page that it executes
i know im being a pain just need help i have tried it

[mblack0508]

gotornot;10923210 wrote:

$email = $argv['1'];
echo $email;
#$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
// select the header.
header("Location: http://mailgoblin.co.uk/user-sub.php?referrer=9&email=$email");

that is on the next page that it executes
i know im being a pain just need help i have tried it

I think there is a lot of confusion because we dont know exactly what you are trying to do.

If you're just mailing people, then there is no reason to call an external script or worry about breaking the loop. If you're looking to redirect a user with the header function, but continue to process, then it will break the loop.

[gotornot]

What i am trying to do is send the users details to an external script on another domain however i need to loop through over 500,000 details and they all need passing so i wanted to send them all to this external script that will take the details and forward it on to the location.

so for example
I loop through and want to send jo bloggs email to a script on another server. but i still want to go through the loop and do all his friends and i thought by passing that info through it would be easier.

[dagon]

header is an http function, it redirects the browser