Posted by NC on 07/20/07 00:08

On Jul 17, 3:04 pm, Charles <landema...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have to develop a script to be run nightly to go through
> a database and send emails based on conditions. It's a large
> database, and there are several thousands of emails to be
> sent during the week everyday. The script will be run with
> a cron job at midnight or so.
>
> I was wondering if PHP is suitable for this

Absolutely, as long as you have a command-line interpreter on your
system. With PHP is executed from the command line, timeouts do not
apply; the script behaves as any other shell script would.

Cheers,
NC

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