Mailout via database - Timeout issue

jdog3321

I just tried to email a addresses from a database.
The script I used worked for a list of approx. 15 addresses.

I put in-house email addresses at the beginning and end of database. The operation timed-out when ran from the browser.
The first address received it but the last address did not.

Is there any way to run the php script so that it won't time-out?

Here is the php I used:
<?

$headers = "From: Test <test@arbitrary.com>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

$subject = "HTML Email via PHP/mySQL";

// Query
include('/db connection script');
$query = "SELECT * FROM emaillist";
$result = @($query,$conn) or die("Query Failed");
$i = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$first = $row['firstname'];
$to = $row['email'];
$i++;
// Message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Html Message</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
Dear '.$first.':
<p>Message Body....
</body>
</html>
';
// Send It
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
echo $i," Emails Sent";

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By default PHP will timeout a script after 30 seconds...if you place the following at the top of your script, you can overide the default value and turn the timeout off:

set_time_limit(0);

Note, however, that if safe mode is on this will not work.

jdog3321

Thank you for the tip, mattwade!