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8 | <h2>phpmailer FAQ</h2> |
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11 | <b>I'm using the SMTP mailer and I keep on getting a timeout message |
12 | well before the X seconds I set it for. What gives?</b> |
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14 | PHP versions 4.0.4pl1 and earlier have a bug in which sockets timeout |
15 | early. You can fix this by re-compiling PHP 4.0.4pl1 with this fix: |
16 | <a href="timeoutfix.diff">timeoutfix.diff</a>. Otherwise you can wait |
17 | for the new PHP release. |
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21 | <b>I am concerned that using include files will take up too much |
22 | processing time on my computer. How can I make it run faster?</b> |
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24 | PHP by itself is very fast. Much faster than ASP or JSP running on |
25 | the same type of server. This is because it has very little overhead compared |
26 | to its competitors and it pre-compiles all of |
27 | its code before it runs each script (in PHP4). However, all of |
28 | this compiling and re-compiling can take up a lot of valuable |
29 | computer resources. However, there are programs out there that compile |
30 | PHP code and store it in memory (or on mmaped files) to reduce the |
31 | processing immensely. Two of these: <a href="http://apc.communityconnect.com">APC |
32 | (Alternative PHP Cache)</a> and <a href="http://bwcache.bware.it/index.htm">Afterburner</a> |
33 | (<a href="http://www.mm4.de/php4win/mod_php4_win32/">Win32 download</a>) |
34 | are excellent free tools that do just this. If you have the money |
35 | you might also try <a href="http://www.zend.com">Zend Cache</a>, it is |
36 | even faster than the open source varieties. All of these tools make your |
37 | scripts run faster while also reducing the load on your server. I have tried |
38 | them myself and they are quite stable too. |
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43 | <b>What mailer gives me the best performance?</b> |
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45 | On a single machine the mail() or sendmail mailers give you the best |
46 | performance because they do not have the added overhead of SMTP. |
47 | If you have you have your mail server on a another machine then |
48 | SMTP is your only option, but you do get the benefit of redundant |
49 | mail servers. |
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53 | <b>When I try to attach a file with on my server I get a |
54 | "Could not find {file} on filesystem error". Why is this?</b> |
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56 | If you are using a Unix machine this is probably because the user |
57 | running your web server does not have read access to the directory |
58 | in question. If you are using Windows, then the problem probably is |
59 | that you have used single backslashes to denote directories ("\"). |
60 | A single backslash has a special meaning to PHP so these are not |
61 | valid. Instead use double backslashes ("\\") or a single forward |
62 | slash ("/"). |
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