Re: Can a PHP script run in the background?

[Ori Idan]

I think the best way is not to send by PHP at all but to set up a mailing
list such as Majordomo or mailman and then use PHP to send to one address,
the list address.

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Ori Idan


On 3/7/07, Uri Even-Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi people,

I wrote a PHP program that sends E-mail to 121 E-mail addresses at
once [http://www.speedy.net/knesset/].  The problem is, it takes many
seconds until the program completes sending all the E-mails.  I want
to give the user an instant feedback, and send E-mails later (after
the HTML output is complete).  How do I do it?  Can I postpone the
mail sending function?  My program calls sendmail 121 times, and I
think that's the only slow part of the program.  The rest is quite
fast.  Can I call sendmail in such a way that PHP will regain control
right away?  Or alternatively, can I run another PHP script in the
background?

Below is my mail sending script.

Uri.


<?php
      $tmp_addresses_clone= $tmp_addresses;

      // Flush the output buffer.
      ob_flush(); flush();

      $tmp_count= count($tmp_addresses_clone);
      while ($tmp_count > 0)
      {
         $tmp_random= rand(0, $tmp_count - 1);

         // Open Mail Command.
         $tmp_mail_command= '/usr/sbin/sendmail -f ' . $tmp_email . '
' . $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . ' > /dev/null 2>&1';

         $tmp_mail_file_pointer= popen($tmp_mail_command, "w");
         if ($tmp_mail_file_pointer)
         {
            // Print mail header.
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "From: " . '=?UTF-8?B?' .
base64_encode($tmp_name) . '?=' . ' ' . '<' . $tmp_email . '>' .
"\n");
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "To: " .
$tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . "\n");
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "Subject: " . '=?UTF-8?B?' .
base64_encode($tmp_subject) . '?=' . "\n");
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "MIME-Version: 1.0\n");
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=UTF-8\n");
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "\n");

            // Print mail body.
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, $tmp_content . "\n");
            fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "\n");

            // Close file.
            pclose($tmp_mail_file_pointer);
         }

         echo ($tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . '<br>' . "\n");
         $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random]=
$tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_count - 1];
         unset($tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_count - 1]);

         // Flush the output buffer.
         ob_flush(); flush();

         $tmp_count= count($tmp_addresses_clone);
      }
?>

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