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Handling mail is a very common requirement in web applications. Even the most basic sites usually have a contact form that sends a mail through the server instead of putting a contact mail address for spam-spiders to find. Using PHP’s built in function (aptly named mail() ) is relatively straightforward - until you need slightly more advanced features, such as adding and encoding email headers or sending multiple mails efficiently.



Fortunately, the Zend Framework comes with a very capable mail component called Zend_Mail. Zend_Mail abstracts some of the more tedious aspects of mail handling with PHP, including:





1. Adding and encoding email headers
2. Protection against header injection
3. Multiple mail transports (SMTP is useful for sending multiple mails)
4. Creating and handling mime-compliant multipart messages
5. Composing HTML emails
6. Reading mail boxes

hen we want some kind of background process running our PHP code, we have a simple challenge: we can’t leave it up to the client. On the web, people hit their stop button, their browsers lock up and they force quit, they even have the odd power outage. When we want to do complex processing on the server side, we need to detach from the client-server model of a web-served script. PHP can fork a script, but the parent script is still facing an unreliable client.

Our best option, then, is to launch a background process from the command line. There are three steps to this: starting the background script, passing it information to do its job, and checking when it’s finished.

The SesameVault.com API provides access to core SesameVault functionality for use with 3rd party web and desktop applications, and is available for commercial or non-commercial use by anyone with a SesameVault account.







The core API functionality includes:





• Video uploading
• Video transcoding
• Video retrieval
• Tagging / video organization
• Retrieval of stats, video metadata, etc





This tutorial is split into three parts. The first describes the architecture of the API: how to make requests and how to read responses. The second outlines API libraries for Ruby and PHP developers that take much of the work out of using the API. And the third delves into the specifics of the most common API calls and provides examples to get you started quickly.