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Re: Running function in the background? [message #176584 is a reply to message #176579]

Tue, 10 January 2012 10:50

Luuk
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On 10-01-2012 03:50, Michael Joel wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:32:43 -0500, John Drako
> <jbravo556(at)gmail(dot)removethis(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I have a site where users can download files, and I want to enable the
>> users to request files by email. Some of those files are big (not too
>> big for email attachements).
>>
>> What I would like to have the user be able to do is to click on a file
>> and have it emailed to him, but the user shouldn't have to wait for the
>> emailing function to finish (tens of seconds some time) and continue
>> browsing and clicking on other files to email or even leave the site
>> confident that they'll receive the files in their email later.
>>
>> So I would like the emailing functionality to happen in the background
>> and independent from the connection to the browser.
>>
>> Is this possible? Is it doable in PHP directly?
>
> Just an idea - if it sounds dumb just ignore me :)
>
> If nothing else works better. Instead of needing privileges do run
> system scrips - couldn't you create a cron job for a PHP script that
> sends emails to all records in a database?
>
> When the user clicks the link it simply adds their email address and
> fiel to email to the database. When the cron job runs it sends out an
> email with the files linked with it.
>
> just a quick thought
> Mike

i like this solution,
but i cannot find the 'i like'-button ;)

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Luuk

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		Running function in the background? By: John Drako on Tue, 10 January 2012 01:32
		Re: Running function in the background? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 10 January 2012 01:43
		Re: Running function in the background? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 10 January 2012 02:06
		Re: Running function in the background? By: Michael Joel on Tue, 10 January 2012 02:50
		Re: Running function in the background? By: Luuk on Tue, 10 January 2012 10:50
		Re: Running function in the background? By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 10 January 2012 12:52
		Re: Running function in the background? By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 10 January 2012 10:03
		Re: Running function in the background? By: John Drako on Wed, 11 January 2012 13:40
		Re: Running function in the background? By: M. Strobel on Tue, 10 January 2012 16:29
		Re: Running function in the background? By: M. Strobel on Tue, 10 January 2012 16:39

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