quick mail question simple!

[Anon]

ok this is extremly ez, i have a site that has like 80,000+ users i tried to do a script where it pulled them from a database with a loop and sent each a email but it would time out, how would i go about stopping this? i think it would be dumb if i jsut turned the timing out time cuz eventually the browser would time out. someone said there is a trick any ideas? all help is appreciated..

[zhabala]

There are two things you have to care about. One is script execution time, which is configurable in php.ini by max_execution_time = (seconds).

The second is, that browser needs to get a response from server from time to time, otherwise it closes the connection. It can be solved by some text echoed to the browser. You have to have some part of script:

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array()) {
mail(); // to send mail
echo "<SPAN>something</SPAN>";
}

then the browser is getting response and did not stop. You can set is as HTML invisible with STYLE statement, and it would not break your layout.

Zdenek