Hello Joseph, Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 2:07:01 PM, you wrote:
> First of all you will want to index your database. I am guessing the > query is taking forever due to it not having indexes. > Also I would suggest that you do this > $res = ("SELECT * FROM table WHERE email = ' ". email2chk." ' "; > also I would make sure you have no duplicates in the database by > setting a UNIQUE on the email column. > Doing these things should speed up the site however note that if you > check this on every page load it will be resource intensive. > also what is $email2Chk is it a string or your array of emails? > Thanks, > Joseph Crawford > On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello NYPHP, >> >> I have an array that has 13000 email addresses. For now, its in the >> script but will be in a database table eventually. It is a list of >> known bad guys. >> >> I have a database table with 9000 records and one of the fields is >> an email address. >> >> In PHP I am using a foreach to loop through the array and do a >> database lookup to try to find any matching emails. >> >> I am using this query inside the foreach loop: >> >> $res = ("SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `email` = '$email2Chk'"); >> $numRows = mysql_num_rows($res); >> if ( !empty($numRows )) >> >> >> It processes about 12000 addresses in the array and the script >> times out. >> >> Anyone have a better idea for doing this task? >> >> TIA for any help. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> mikesz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3519 (20081013) __________ > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > http://www.eset.com $email2Chk is an array element. I thought it was but email is not indexed. Weird, they index a lot of stuff that doesn't matter but email is missing.... -- Best regards, mikesz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php