Put this before each email goes out. It will give your script another 30 seconds to run. set_time_limit(30);
-Jason Garber IonZoft.com At 08:18 AM 11/2/2001 -0800, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: >Interesting that this should come up. The company I work for needs to send >out an e-mail to 95k of their subscribers. Now, this is the first time in 2 >years, so you can imagine that we'll be getting 94k of bounced e-mail >addresses. So I'm writing a script that will handle sending out the e-mails >and handling incoming bounced e-mail addresses. In any case, I would think >that my PHP script would time out before sending 95k e-mails. I know it has >timed out at 30 seconds before, but I can't remember if the faulty script >had an endless loop for 30 seconds or if there was any data getting sent or >received in that time. Anyone know beforehand whether I will get a timeout >with sending these e-mails, and if so, how to work around it? > >- Jonathan > >-----Original Message----- >From: Russ Michell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:20 AM >To: Cami >Cc: PHP DB list >Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] sending bulk emails > > > > Does anybody know how to send bulk emails using php? >Don't do it!! > >But of you must - I guess you could build an array containing email >addresses, names, etc - taken >from form input or a database or whatever and then loop the arrays mailing >people... > >$mail = "mail("; >for($i=0; $i<$email_array_name;$i++( { > $mail .= "$values,"; > } >$mail .= "\"$subject\",\"$body\",\"From: $from\");"; > >Something like that anyway (that's just off the top of my head) >Regards. > >Russ > >On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:26:22 -0000 Cami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > Does anybody know how to send bulk emails using php? > > Thanks, > > Cami > > > > -- > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >#-------------------------------------------------------# > > "Believe nothing - consider everything" > > Russ Michell > Anglia Polytechnic University Webteam > Room 1C 'The Eastings' East Road, Cambridge > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: www.apu.ac.uk/webteam > > www.theruss.com > >#-------------------------------------------------------# > > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
