handling events in PHP?

[dpopiz]

Does PHP have the ability to respond to events?
Specifically I need some sort of script that will query a MYSQL db when it receives an email message or SMS.

if not PHP, does Python or Ruby or any other readable scripting language allow this kind of functionality?

 

[DaveSimmons]

To respond to email you'll need your SMTP server to have functionality to call out to a script or executable file.

To respond to SMS I guess you'll need to be running a SMS listener program that can call out to a script or executable.

If you could send an HTTP message instead, you could easily run script code from a web server.