Posted by C. on 08/11/07 20:44

On 11 Aug, 20:41, "Fabio" <znt.fa...@virgilio.it> wrote:
>
> Ok, I thank you and I'll explain.
> In a web site page, when someone press a submit button I should exec a
> mail() function to send an email to each registered user.
> The execution of mail() is a little slow, so if the user list is a little
> long who pressed the button need to wait to obtain the interaction with the
> site.
> My idea is to exec all the calls to mail() in background, so the interation
> is immediate and if the mail sending use some "hidden" minutes it's not a
> problem.
>
> I hope I was clear wth my english and newbie php language :)
>

Try googling for PHP script and background execution - this gets asked
again and again. And its not nearly as simple as some people believe -
expect to do some testing/tinkering especially if you have any sort of
traffic volumnes.

C.

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