If you need help with avoiding creating a spam gateway, let me know, but that's probably a longer conversation.

Thanks friend. I'm not quite there yet.

PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: fromName in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-cli.
+php on line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: fromEmail in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-cli
+.php on line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: to in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-cli.php on
+ line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: cc in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-cli.php on
+ line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: bcc in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-cli.php o
+n line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: subject in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-cli.p
+hp on line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: messageHtml in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-c
+li.php on line 4
PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: messageText in /etc/my/lib/sendMail-c
+li.php on line 4
Invalid address: Invalid address:
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Any ideas?

Did you use extract() right? This is a PHP function that loops through an associative array (think "hash" in Perl), and creates a local variable for each top-level key.

So instead of doing:

<?php
$myarray = array(
  "foo" => 1,
  "bar" => 2,
  "baz" => 3,
);
$foo = $myarray["foo"];
$bar = $myarray["bar"];
$baz = $myarray["baz"];
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You can just do:

<?php
$myarray = array(
  "foo" => 1,
  "bar" => 2,
  "baz" => 3,
);
extract($myarray);
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The keys will be case-sensitive, so make sure you're capitalizing them the same in the PHP and the Perl script that feeds it.

Alternatively, abandon using extract() and just access stuff in the array normally. I mostly only used extract() to keep the example PHP file I wrote very small and simple.

toby döt ink