I'll be writing a script to parse text documents into a MySQL database. I'll be converting PDF's to text with a separate utility. These PDF's will be submitted via e-mail attachments.
I'm looking to see if I can do this with PHP since that's the server language I'm most familiar with. Second choice would be Perl, but I'll take your recommendations.
So the language needs to be able to:
I won't have full access to the server since it'll be hosted by GoDaddy or similar.
I'm familiar with PHP but I can't think of how I'd have it systematically check a mailbox. If PHP can't do it, are there languages that run constantly on a server performing tasks without requests from a browser?
Thank You.
You can do it with a PHP script, managed via a cron job.
You can trigger the HTTP requests regularly using a service like http://www.setcronjob.com/
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