[SOLVED] max_execution_time work around

[frost]

I have had occassion to send out mass emails, NOT SPAM. A few times the lists were so large that they blew out the max_execution_time.

 

Besides changing that value in php.ini is there a way to work around it?

 

I know sleep(); doesn't do anything, does flush(); have any effect?

 

Thanks.

[lemmin]

set_time_limit()

 

Whatever number you pass will increase the time limit from 30 seconds.

[MadTechie]

try

 

echo ".";
flush();

 

or even

 

echo "";
flush();

 

after each send but maybe concat the names into one email and send it

basically the script will timeout if nothing is send to the screen so send a dot or nothing 

[frost]

Thanks!