PHP Pipe Issues

If you're piping an e-mail to a PHP script and getting a blank error like the one below:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: pipe to |/home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxx.php generated by nobody@nowhere.aq The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: ------ pipe to |/home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxx.php generated by nobody@nowhere.aq ------ ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

The e-mail is piped to your program, and the user still gets an error. If that's the case, look no further.

You need to make sure that the first line of your script correctly tells where PHP is:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

Also, make sure the "-q" is there, that's important.

Secondly, make sure your script is not outputting ANYTHING at all, anywhere, ever.

A common mistake is this:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q <? $fd = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); $email = ""; //More code here....

See the blank line between the "#!/usr/bin" line and the "<?"... Yeah, that'll do it.

Happy coding!

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