PHP ActiveX

Async Progress Info Log

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Demonstrates checking for progress info updates when running a task asynchronously. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$success = 0;

// The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan");

// Set the SMTP server and any required settings.
$mailman->SmtpHost = 'smtp.mymailserver.com';
$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'myLogin';
$mailman->SmtpPassword = 'myPassword';
$mailman->StartTLS = 1;

// Create a new email object
$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");

$email->Subject = 'This is a test';
$email->Body = 'This is a test';
$email->From = 'Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>';
$success = $email->AddTo('Chilkat Admin','admin@chilkatsoft.com');

// Call the async version of the SendEmail method to return a task object.
// The task object is loaded, but is in the Inert state -- meaning it is
// not yet scheduled to run on Chilkat's background thread pool.
// task is a Chilkat.Task
$task = $mailman->SendEmailAsync($email);
if ($mailman->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Before starting the task, tell it to keep an in-memory log of what would've been
// ProgressInfo event callbacks.
$task->KeepProgressLog = 1;

// Schedule the task for running on the thread pool.  This changes the task's state
// from Inert to Live.
$success = $task->Run();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $task->LastErrorText . "\n";

    exit;
}

// The application is now free to do anything else
// while the email is being sent.

// For this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
// check to see if the SendEmail if finished.  While checking
// however, we'll report on the progress.
$curPctDone = 0;

while ($task->Finished != 1) {

    if ($task->PercentDone != $curPctDone) {
        $curPctDone = $task->PercentDone;
        print $curPctDone . ' percent done' . "\n";
    }

    // Check the progress info log.
    // Emit any log entries..
    while (($task->ProgressLogSize > 0)) {
        // Get the 1st entry, emit it, and then remove it..
        $name = $task->progressInfoName(0);
        $value = $task->progressInfoValue(0);
        print $name . ': ' . $value . "\n";
        $task->RemoveProgressInfo(0);
    }

    // Sleep 100 ms.
    $task->SleepMs(100);

}

// Just in case there are any remaining entries...
while (($task->ProgressLogSize > 0)) {
    // Get the 1st entry, emit it, and then remove it..
    $name = $task->progressInfoName(0);
    $value = $task->progressInfoValue(0);
    print $name . ': ' . $value . "\n";
    $task->RemoveProgressInfo(0);
}

// A finished task could be one that was canceled, aborted, or truly finished.  

// If the task was "canceled", it was canceled prior to actually starting.  This could
// happen if the task was canceled while waiting in a thread pool queue to be scheduled by Chilkat's
// background thread pool scheduler.  

// If the task was "aborted", it indicates that it was canceled while running in a background thread.  
// The ResultErrorText will likely indicate that the task was aborted.

// If the task "completed", then it ran to completion, but the actual success/failure of the method
// is determined by the result obtained via a GetResult* method.  (A "completed" task will
// have a StatusInt equal to 7.   If the task finished, but was not completed, then it must've
// been aborted or canceled:
if ($task->StatusInt != 7) {
    print 'Task did not complete.' . "\n";
    print 'task status: ' . $task->Status . "\n";

    exit;
}

// The SendEmail method returns a boolean.  Therefore, after the task is finished,
// we can get the boolean result by calling GetResultBool.  This is the return value had
// we called SendEmail synchronously.
$success = $task->GetResultBool();
if ($success != 1) {
    // The task's ResultErrorText contains what would have been in the LastErrorText property had
    // the SendEmail method been called synchronously.
    print $task->ResultErrorText . "\n";
}
else {
    print 'Email sent asynchronously.' . "\n";
}

$success = $mailman->CloseSmtpConnection();
if ($success != 1) {
    print 'Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.' . "\n";

}


?>