Time Out problem

[studiobanks]

I have created a newsletter script for a website I built.

The basic code that does the sending of the emails looks like this

	
$wait_count = "1";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_results_5)) { 
	$address = $row["EMAIL"];
	$address = trim($address);
	$mail_send = mail($address,$subject,$message,$headers);	

if(!$mail_send) {
errorMsg("Message not sent to $address.");
}
else {
$wait_count++;
$email_count++;
}

if($wait_count == 30) {
sleep(3); 
$wait_count = 0;
}

}

It was working fine at first. Now we have about 2000 people signed up for the newsletter and when you run the script, I get a "failure to load page" error in my browser. The script still sends emails to the first 100 or so in the database. So this makes testing a problem, beacuse I don't want to flood those people with emails.

Any idea how to fix this?

Banks

[aaronvegh]

I'm not sure how to fix that, but a good test could help you diagnose it properly. Try populating the list database with 2000 false email addresses, or use a test email address and repeat it 2000 times in the script. That way you can test your script without flooding your list. :-)

Cheers,
Aaron.