I wouldn't mind them waiting if I could provide a "please wait" or appropriate graphic. When they click SEND, the script takes 10 seconds to cycle through the database.

It's a MYSQL database with maybe 100 records. The script loops through and sends an email to records that have notifications set to yes

BTW, I just thought of something. Maybe my code is off. I have 2 email fields in each database records, (email, email2). Each email field can have a notification set or not. I'm looping through twice, maybe that's the problem. 

$SQL = "select * from $resident_info_table where email!='' and email_a
+lert = 'yes' order by ID desc";
&Do_SQL;
while ($pointer=$sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
$recipient = $pointer->{'email'};
&send_email;
}
$SQL2 = "select * from $resident_info_table where email2!='' and email
+2_alert = 'yes' order by ID desc";
&Do_SQL2;
while ($pointer2=$sth2->fetchrow_hashref) {
$recipient = $pointer2->{'email'};
&send_email;
}

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Is there a way to do both queries in one sql search?

In reply to Re^2: Looping through database query to send emails is taking too long by htmanning
in thread Looping through database query to send emails is taking too long by htmanning

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