I would use a temporary table to hold all the email created in one job.
Have a status field marked as sent, waiting or open.
Have a cron job set 'x' number of open emails to waiting. Execute
periodically.
Have a cron job to send all waiting email and update status to sent.
Execute periodically.
Stephen
Richard Kurth wrote:
I want to limit these script two send 100 email and then pause for a
few seconds and then send another 100 emails and repeat this tell it
has sent all the emails that are dated for today. This script is runs
by cron so it is running in the background.
How would I do this and is it the best way to do it. I am using swift
mailer to send the mail.
I think I would use limit 100 in the query but how would I tell it to
get the next 100.
$today = date("Y-m-d");
# Cache the Contact that will recive campain messages today
$query = "SELECT emailmessages. * , contacts.* FROM emailmessages,
contacts WHERE emailmessages.contact_id = contacts.id AND
emailmessages.nextmessagedate = '$today' AND contacts.emailstatus =
'Active'"; $DB_Contact_Result = mysql_query($query);
if (!$DB_Contact_Result) {
die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}
while ($this_row = mysql_fetch_array ($DB_Contact_Result)){
$CustomerID=$this_row["id"];
//get the message for the contact
$query1 = "SELECT * FROM emailcampaign where member_id =
'$this_row[members_id]' AND campaign_id = '$this_row[emailcampaign]'
AND day = '$this_row[email_number]'";
$DB_Mail_Result = mysql_query($query1);
if (!$DB_Mail_Result) {
die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}
$Mail_row = mysql_fetch_array($DB_Mail_Result);
//get member stuff
$query2 = "SELECT * FROM member where members_id =
'$this_row[members_id]'";
$DB_Member_Result = mysql_query($query2);
if (!$DB_Member_Result) {
die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}
$subject=stripslashes($Mail_row['subject']);
$message=stripslashes($Mail_row['textmessage']);
$hmessage=stripslashes($Mail_row['htmlmessage']);
$swiftPlain = $message;
$MailFrom1=$this_row['emailaddress'];
$MailFromName1=$this_row['firstname'];
$full_name=stripslashes($this_row['firstname']) ." " .
stripslashes($this_row['lastname']);
//Create the message
$message = new Swift_Message($subject);
$message->attach(new Swift_Message_Part($swiftPlain));
$message->attach(new Swift_Message_Part($swiftHtml, "text/html"));
$message->setReturnPath($MailAddReplyTo);
$message->setReplyTo($MailFrom1,$MailFromName1);
//Now check if Swift actually sends it
$swift->send($message,
$this_row['emailaddress'],$MailFrom1,$MailFromName1);
#After we send the email we need to update the database to send the
next message
# get the next message number
$nextday=getnextday(stripslashes($this_row['emailcampaign']),stripslashes($this_row['members_id']),stripslashes($this_row['email_number']));
# get the new dates
$newdate=getnewdate(stripslashes($this_row['emailstarted']),$nextday);
#update the emailmessages
//unsubscribecode
updateemailmessages($unpass,$nextday,$newdate,stripslashes($this_row['em_id']),stripslashes($this_row['email_number']));
}//end of mail loop
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