PHP call other program asynchronous?

[mshen]

I need to send about 500 emails from a PHP page,but it is too slow from php page because php is a synchronous language.

I plan to call other program to do this. and make the php page faster.I want to know if PHP have a asynchronous call function to do this.

It is better if you have similar demo for this.

Thanks a lot.

[jayant]

you can probably write them into the database or some file.

and run a script called mailsender.php (or whatever u like) which actually sends out mails, call it via a cronjob.

[mshen]

I need send out 1000 email and do not want the php script to wait the process finish.it take too long time.

After send the send email command the php continue to do other things .

[stolzyboy]

i've done mass email in the tens of thousands, all you need to do is do lay 50 at a time, then sleep the page for a little bit, so it can rest, then process whatever else you want, then repeat the process

and if you use cron, you won't even know it is running, you can use wget to run a php page

[mshen]

stolzyboy,

Please tell me some detail what you did.and give me a sample code about it.

Thanks a lot

[stolzyboy]

<?
loop to figure out how many email there are, then loop, if static do numbered for loop
{
for loop to loop thru 50 emails, then loop back thru and get the next...so on
{
do the mail

sleep(5); //how ever long, 5 seconds
process other stuff if needed, then loop back up to next 50
}
}
?>

then have a cron job call the phppage using wget, you can search on yahoo for "run php page with cron" to find numerous tut's on that