browser times out

mrwhitee

I made an email script with a for loop to go through all the emails (about 2000). At the end its supposed to echo to the screen how many emails sent but it times out first.

My question is:

does it still continue sending the emails on the server till the loop is finished or does it stop when the page times out?
how do I make it go to another page if it times out before the loop is finished.

Kudose

It will stop looping and sending emails when the script stops.

You should add [man]set_time_limit[/man] into your loop.

mrwhitee

hmmm will setting it to zero make it run till finished?

Kudose

Yes. That's what the manual says in the link I provided above.

Edit

The only problem with that is if there is a problem in the loop, it will run indefinitely.

mrwhitee

I thought it did and I just tested it and it worked. 🙂

Only thing is some people might not be patient enough or know to keep the page open till finished. Isnt there a way to tell the script to keep running and send the user to another page so they dont have to wait?

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mrwhitee

I think this will make it keep going.

ignore_user_abort(TRUE);

not sure how to make it send the user to another page yet, as it wont be able to execute another command till the loop is finished in which case might as well stay put. Ill have to play some more and then maybe.😉

Horizon88

ignore_user_abort should make it keep going. What you could do, if you want them to see a message without waiting for the loop:

<html>
<head>
<title>mailing lots of stuff</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="20;URL=thanks.html">
</head> 
<body>
<?PHP
for ($i =0; $i < sizeof($emails); $i++) {
set_time_limit(0);
ignore_user_abort(TRUE);
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
?>
</body>
</html>

If I'm not mistaken, that should load up a blank page (you could put text or something into it, look into ob_flush(), I believe is the function), get the loop started, tell it to ignore user aborts, then redirect them to thanks.html after 20 seconds.