Question

I have an array that can hold up to several thousands of items.(usually around 5000 items).
I need to split this array into hundreds and process them and then continue with the rest of items.
So far i handle the whole array which is slow.
My code is

foreach($result as $p){
                $sqlQuery = mysql_query("INSERT INTO message_details(contact, message_id)VALUES('$p', $message_last_id)");
                $last_id = mysql_insert_id();
                $xmlString .= "<gsm messageId=\"$last_id\">".$p."</gsm>";
                $cnt++;
            }

How can i process the items in the array in hundreds? Eg. 100, then 200, then 300 etc

Best Regards,
Nicos

Answer 1

If you have to do it in the code the you can use the php function array_chunk to chunk your array into arrays of 100 elements each. Here’s the docs on array_chunk: link. But as pointed out this is unlikely to be the bottle neck.