Hiya,
I have nearly finished a project I am working on, and completely forgot about
having a newsletter service! Basically its a website, and on the registration page
people opt in or out of the newsletter, and this is a field in the database.
So either once a week, or randomly I want to be able to send a newsletter to about
a million people (hopefully if all goes to plan).
What I did envisage was running a PHP script through the command line, which got
the first 100 or so which wanted the newsletter, then the next 100 etc, till all the
users who wanted the newsletter got it. Now my Linux is a bit hazy, but I think I can
run this low priority, because Iam not bothered if it will take a day or so to send
them all.
Sommat like this:
1- Read the first 100 emails that want the newsletter
2- Email them
3- If read 100, then go to 1 (but start from 100), if not quit
So basically my questions are:
1- Is this the best way? Or should I use some mailing list software? I do want
them to subsribe/unsubsribe through the website
2- Is there a point when the script would time out? I know in Apache, u can
set a time limit for a script, but would a command line PHP script have the same
problem? Ihave never run PHP through the command line.
Thanks a lot, any advive or links would be great...
Oh yeh nearly forgot, although it will be hosted on Linux, it will be tested on
Windows 2k, so hopefully the mehtod would work for Win 2k but this is not necessary...
Steve
PS I have looked at a few archives, and searched the net but not seen anything that
helpful...
