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Reputation: 1250

Integrating a "watchlist" feature in php (symfony)

I was looking for input about integrating a feature that:

*When a new article is added, search for users having a watchlist taht match the article categorie. *Send them an email with the new article.

I am kind of worried it will slow the application to browse the whole watchlist table everytime a new article popup.

What would be the best way to integrate that?

Is doing a cron job that check every hours new article and compare them to watchlists a good idea? One email per day?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 186

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 3848

If I were doing this, I would only worry if (numberOfwatchlists) * (newArticlesPerMinute) is a very large number.

As for not spaming emails, I think a once a day check would be good.

Upvotes: 2

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