PEAR: Using PEAR_Error in Mail::send()

[Alvaro G Vicario]

I'm trying to send e-mail using PEAR's Mail class--for testing purposes
actually, I've never had any problem with conventional mail(). This is
what my code looks like:

$mail_object=&Mail::factory('sendmail', $params);
if($mail_object->send($to, $headers, $body)){
header('Location: '.$url_ok);
}else{
header('Location: '.$url_ko);
}

This works (i.e., sends mail) but I know it isn't fine. My code never
shows any error, even after removing sendmail link... The send() method
returns "TRUE or a PEAR_Error object, if fails" and I just can't figure
out how to use that. PEAR online manual doesn't include an example of
error handling, at least in this chapter, and I'm rather new to object
oriented programming. I'd greatly appreciate a little example.
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-- Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
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[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 10/28/2003 01:37 PM, Alvaro G Vicario wrote:

I'm trying to send e-mail using PEAR's Mail class--for testing purposes
actually, I've never had any problem with conventional mail(). This is
what my code looks like:

$mail_object=&Mail::factory('sendmail', $params);
if($mail_object->send($to, $headers, $body)){
header('Location: '.$url_ok);
}else{
header('Location: '.$url_ko);
}

This works (i.e., sends mail) but I know it isn't fine. My code never
shows any error, even after removing sendmail link... The send() method
returns "TRUE or a PEAR_Error object, if fails" and I just can't figure
out how to use that. PEAR online manual doesn't include an example of
error handling, at least in this chapter, and I'm rather new to object
oriented programming. I'd greatly appreciate a little example.

I don't use PEAR so I can't tell you what is wrong. However, I can
recommend this other class for composing and sending messages that also
has a sub-class specialized in deliverying messages directly with the
sendmail program. I can assure you that when the sendmail program is
missing, it will fail returning false and you can check the error class
variable to know more about the failure.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** Manuel Lemos escribió/wrote (6:16:34 29/10/2003):

I can assure you that when the sendmail program is missing, it will
fail returning false and you can check the error class variable to
know more about the failure.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

Thank you for your remark, I didn't know about this class repository.

About PEAR, I finally got some inspiration. I guess you just have to
test returned value against true using the "===" operator and, if you
need further info in case or error, you can save that value into a
variable and just access its methods.
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-- Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
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