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);
?>
