Re: Cron php & refresh
| From: | Jeffrey | Date: | Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:08:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Cron php & refresh | ||
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Per Jessen wrote:
Jeffrey wrote:JeffreyI'm working on an application that includes e-mail notifications of certain events. Because the application will have hundreds or thousands of users, I've designed it so that e-mail notifications are saved to a MySQL table. Then a regular cron job runs a php page to select the data from the table, put it into a mail() command and mail.Why not just send the notification at the time of the event? (I assume you update the database at the time of the event). /Per Jessen, Zürich Because in my experience, several hundred e-mails takes time to send, hence either the user leaves the page before all the mails are sent or the page times out before all mails are sent. And if there are thousands of e-mails, it will only get worse.