[FX.php List] Subject: Mass Mailing Techniques

[Dale Bengston]

Scott,

You can also temporarily boost the timeout on your page with  
set_time_limit().

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

-Dale


On Mar 27, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Steve Hannah wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> One solution for this is to increase the timeout in the php.ini  
> file.  Personally I don't like this solution as it will only buy  
> you a little bit of extra time.
>
> A better solution is to create a script that only sends a single  
> email and have this script continually called to send an email to  
> each address.  A common method is to call the script by way of  
> <img> tags (so you include the multiple copies of the script as  
> images in a main web page.   Another way is to use Javascript and  
> XMLHTTPRequest, to make the continuous calls.  If you do the <img>  
> tags method, then the script should produce an image file that can  
> be displayed (one for success and one for failure).
>
> Let me know if this doesn't make sense, and I can produce an  
> example for you.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Steve Hannah
> On 23-Mar-06, at 10:41 AM, Scott Baetz wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>>
>> Our organization would like to begin distributing emails to our  
>> membership.  We are using a basic html page, and have no problems  
>> pulling the data from FX.php and into an array for final mailing.   
>> However, when we execute the mail (a simple for loop calling mail 
>> () function) we receive a timeout – I suspect from the mailing  
>> element.  I’ve spent COUTNLESSS hours searching the we for  
>> something meaningful relating to a solution.  Can anyone here  
>> point me in the right direction?  I’m gathering that many of you  
>> are in the same place at one point or another.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Scott Baetz
>>
>> sbaetz at soscs.net
>>
>> (603) 490-9988
>>
>> http://www.soscs.net
>>
>>
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>
>
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>
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