also - rather than change the ini file, you can just put <?php set_time_limit(43200); ?>
which gives the script 12 hours to run (or however you think you need) i have a simple script for mailing out bulk mail done in php - it has successfully worked on 700 emails so far - so it works :) -b // -----Original Message----- // From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 1:52 AM // To: Faye Keesic // 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... // > -- // > Faye Keesic // > Computer Programmer Analyst/Web Page Design // > // > // > -- // > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) // > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // > // > // // // -- // PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) // To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // To contact the list administrators, e-mail: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]