Hi, Faye.  There's a parm in the configuration file (php.ini) cleverly
called "max_execution_time".  Its default setting is 30.  There's also a
"set_time_limit()" function that allows massaging this variable.

Does this help?

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Faye Keesic wrote:

> Don't know anything about ole 30 second timeout... what does it do?
>
> I checked out phpbuilder, and tried the sleep function after each loop
> iteration (didn't seem to work), so now am trying to send out the headlines
> in groups of 50...
>
> Sounds like others have the same problem.  mail() is a php weakness???
>
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> Faye Keesic
> Computer Programmer Analyst/Web Page Design
>
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:51:54 -0800 (PST)
> >> To: Faye Keesic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Problem with mail function
> >>
> >> Is it the ole 30-second timeout thang?  Changeable in php.ini?
> >>
> >> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Faye Keesic wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi there...
> >>>
> >>> I have a problem mailing out approx. 180 emails (no attachments) using the
> >>> mail() php function.  I loop through the email table once, sending the email
> >>> to everyone in the list.
> >>>
> >>> The problem is that my page seems to time out when I send the emails, and it
> >>> refreshes itself.  So if I don't manually stop the browser after say, 10
> >>> seconds, the recipients in the email table get the email more than one time.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe I shouldn't be trying to send that many emails at a time. I am on
> >>> apache using mysql and php...
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> >>> Computer Programmer Analyst/Web Page Design
> >>>
> >>>
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