Posted by J.O. Aho on 03/22/06 17:28

JDS wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:42:58 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> Run things with help of cron.
>
> No, you see, I want to be able to fork a process from a user-initiated
> session from a web browser. Specifically, this is for a mass-emailer.

sending out bulk e-mails aren't that time depending, you can still let cron do
the mailing, you use only the php as a front end to design the mail to send.
It don't matter if it takes another 59 minutes before it really is sent (if
you have set the cron to check if there is any outgoing once a hour).


//Aho

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