RE: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed
| From: | HP-Richardson,ex1) | Date: | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:56:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed | ||
| Groups: | php.db | ||
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You could change the TO: to something generic like "Email List Subscriber"
then add everyone to the BCC field and then generate 1 email with 9000
people in the BCC field. Let sendmail do the rest. It should take less
time to send the emails and only a few seconds to generate your page.
Cheers
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Payne [mailto:cjp@planetoxygene.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:41 AM
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP-DB] newsletter optimization help needed
Hi there Everyone,
Below is some code I use to send a newsletter to clients subscribed on my
mailing list. The problem is I have over
9000+ email addresses in the DB and it takes around 30-45 minutes to
send them with the below code.
Can anyone see someway I can optimize it so it sends out the newsletter any
faster? I've probably gone about this system the long way, but it works - I
just need to find a way to make it faster :-(
Thanks everyone
All the best
Chris
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<?
$connection = mysql_connect("localhost","Username","Password") or
die("Couldn't make a connection.");
$db = mysql_select_db("WhateverDB", $connection)
or die("Couldn't select database.");
$sql = "SELECT *
FROM emailtest";
$sql_result = mysql_query($sql,$connection)
or die("Couldn't execute query.");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
$emailadd = $row["EMail"];
$emailname = $row["emailname"];
$emailphone = $row["emailphone"];
$emailaddress = $row["emailaddress"];
$MP = "sendmail -t";
$HT = "<html><body>";
$HT = "</body></html>";
$subject = "$subject";
$NOTE = "$emailtests";
$NOTE = str_replace("*email*", "$emailadd", $NOTE);
$NOTE = str_replace("*name*", "$emailname", $NOTE);
$NOTE = str_replace("*phone*", "$emailphone", $NOTE);
$NOTE = str_replace("*address*", "$emailaddress", $NOTE);
$TO = "$emailadd";
$fd = popen($MP,"w");
fputs($fd,"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n");
fputs($fd,"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"); fputs($fd,
"To: $TO\n");
fputs($fd, "From: sales@me.com\n");
fputs($fd, "Subject: $subject\n");
fputs($fd, "X-Mailer: PHP3\n");
fputs($fd, "Email: $email\n");
fputs($fd, "$HT");
fputs($fd, "$NOTE");
fputs($fd, "$EHT");
}
pclose($fd);
exit;
mysql_free_result($sql_result);
mysql_close($connection);
?>