Ping RSS Feeds in php

Hi all,

I've set up a valid RSS Feed using a MySQL database and php. Now I want to "ping it out". I don't think the code should be that hard but I can't find out how to do it.

I want to do something similar to wordpress where you have a list of sites like pingomatic and you somehow ping to those sites everytime your RSS Feed is updated.

I think the answer might lie in XMLRPC but I don't even know what RPC stands for and I don't know how it relates to php. In what format do I need to send the data? Do the pingomatic sites just accept a set of $POST variables?

So many questions so few answers. Any help on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Travis

 

You can always use exec or something similar to actually run a ping command. Other than that the closest thing I can think of would be to use get_headers.

 

I'm not talking about ping as in the ICMP protocol.

It's ping as it relates to sending out RSS Feed information.

 

Yes, I think ping sites accept $_GET variables. I have never tried it, but I think I once found a page where they explained how to notify the site about your xml update. something like ping_site.com?feed_url=yourdomain.com or similar.
Then yo u just need to call that URL like file_get_contents() or using curl.
See this example for Technorati:
http://technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.ad4business.com/feed.php
regards

 

Hi,

Thanks I think I found a solution.

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/weblog-pinger/

It seems to do everything I need.

 

Jeet can u show us Demo of your made script ???

 

chickenhouse... were you able to get this to work? I've been looking for something just like this. Seems time consuming though so I'm wondering how successful your were with this.