Mailing List Send Time out

[earthlingzed]

I'm having trouble with a script timing out on me and need a little advice.

I have built a simple mailinglist send tool that querys a db grabs an array of email and sends everyone a text email. The basic structure is an HTML form sends message info to a script that is doing all of the sending of the email. My problem is that this script that does the sending gets timed out by the browser because it is sending, then sleeping for a couple seconds and there are about 900 people on my mailing list (excedes browser's 60 second load time).

Any way to prevent the time out from the script or otherwise?

[devinemke]

if you have access to it, you can can edit the "max_execution_time" directive in your php.ini file. i think the default value is 60secs.

[earthlingzed]

Can that be set with a .htaccess file as well?

[earthlingzed]

Sorry, just answered that last question myself. It can be set with: php_value max_execution_time 150 in a .htaccess file.