Scrape?

At 12:53 PM -0500 11/12/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
>On Nov 12, 2007 12:46 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I haven't used GA (probably the only web guy left in the world),
>> >but if it has an email feature like Stut mentioned, Tedd, you could
>> >run it through a piped-to-PHP email-parsing script.
>>
>> That's the idea.
>>
>> I can send the email from Google to a specific email address.
>>
>> Now, how can I get php to fetch the email?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> tedd
> > --
>
> It doesn't have to fetch the email.
>
>/etc/localalises (or equivalent) Add:
>google-analytics: |/path/to/script.php
>
> Then just have mail from that sent to google-analytics@yourdomain.com.

Hmmmm interesting. Do you mean that I can have an email sent directly
to a script?

If so, what triggers the script?

How does the script capture the email to parse? Do you have an
example or reference?

Cheers,

tedd

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> At 12:53 PM -0500 11/12/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
>>On Nov 12, 2007 12:46 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I haven't used GA (probably the only web guy left in the world),
>>> >but if it has an email feature like Stut mentioned, Tedd, you could
>>> >run it through a piped-to-PHP email-parsing script.
>>>
>>> That's the idea.
>>>
>>> I can send the email from Google to a specific email address.
>>>
>>> Now, how can I get php to fetch the email?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> tedd
>> > --
>>
>> It doesn't have to fetch the email.
>>
>>/etc/localalises (or equivalent) Add:
>>google-analytics: |/path/to/script.php
>>
>> Then just have mail from that sent to
>> google-analytics@yourdomain.com.
>
> Hmmmm interesting. Do you mean that I can have an email sent directly to a
> script?
>
> If so, what triggers the script?
>
> How does the script capture the email to parse? Do you have an example or
> reference?
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
>

I made one using procmail instead of aliases, but same idea... here is a
snippet

Jake






$buffer = '';
$fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
if ($fp)
{
while(!feof($fp))
{
$buffer .= fgets($fp, 4096);
}
fclose($fp);
}

Jake wrote:
> $buffer = '';
> $fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
> if ($fp)
> {
> while(!feof($fp))
> {
> $buffer .= fgets($fp, 4096);
> }
> fclose($fp);
> }
>


That will get you the data (I think file_get_contents('php://stdin')
will also work).

Interpreting the mail is a little harder but I think there is a pecl
extension for it... yup: http://pecl.php.net/package/mailparse

HTHs

Col