Re: sending pdf files to individual email...

From	Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: sending pdf files to individual email...
Date	2014-07-29 19:50 +0000
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:36:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Actually, I think it's a pretty logical thing to do.  Retrieving data
> from a SQL database is easier than a .csv file.

True, but given a file of empno & email as csv, and a directory of 
empno.pdf, it's probably as easy to step through the file, find the pdf, 
mail it as it is to read the file into a database, step through the file 
list and find the email from the db, email the file.

The directory of pdf files is effectively already random access data.

Swings and roundabouts, but if this was a once off event and I had no 
expectation of other uses for the empno / name / email table, I'm not 
sure I'd bother building a db for this mailshot.

The bigger question for me would be whether to use python or php to 
script the process. ;)

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

Thread

sending pdf files to individual email... nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2014-07-28 22:31 -0700
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-07-29 09:34 +0200
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-29 11:40 +0100
    Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-29 09:36 -0400
      Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-29 18:31 +0100
        Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-29 14:19 -0400
        Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-29 20:40 +0200
          Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-07-30 20:26 +0200
        Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-07-29 19:53 +0000
      Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-07-29 19:50 +0000
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> - 2014-07-29 11:11 +0000
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2014-08-19 07:20 -0700
    Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-08-19 11:42 -0400
    Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-08-22 22:46 -0700

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