Re: selfreferencing script with output

Sabine wrote: > Thanks you very much Silvio, for your answer. > Yes, it seems to be complicated. Especially regarding the time I have > to do the programming for this part of my work. > Now I reduced the time the preparing of the mailtext needs and hope > for the moment that the servers time my script gets will be sufficient > for the task. > I have to check out the circumstances of the productive machine. > But I will surely have a closer look on the AJAX approach later. > Well yeah it sounds difficult at the beginning, but if you have time to study it a little bit this approach can be quite useful in your future projects (<no_flames_please>in some cases, in my opinion, it could be a much better solution than Flash...</no_flames_please>) Anyway, thinking about your current approach I guess it would be better of you let a background process (triggered by the user input or scheduled with cron - you can use free ones on the net, like http://hostedcron.com (never used it, thou)) do the mailing: what if your user hits 'Reload' while the script is sending the emails? All the emails get re-sent? Or if it hits the 'Stop' button? > Thanks again and have a nice sunday > Sabine > You too! ;-) Cheers Silvio