RE: [PHP] Monitor a WP website

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan S [mailto:genphp@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:18 PM > To: Boyd, Todd M.; tedd > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Monitor a WP website > > <clippity> > > > So, you want something to tell you if something new has been added to > > a remote site, right? > > > > There used to be free services that did that -- I used to monitor > > competitors's web sites using such service. But, I think they > > eventually stopped the free service. Here's one site that charges: > > > > http://www.webmetrics.com/websitemonitoring.html > > > > Now, if you want to do this on your own, then it should be simple > > enough to use get_file_contents and put the file through a md5() > > function (or use md5_file) and store the result in a dB. > > > > Then cron a check every so often to see if the hash has changed. If > > it has, then email you notice, rehash the site and store it in the > dB. > > > > Or, am I completely off-base in understanding what you wanted (as > > I've been told lately)? > > > tedd, > (damnit, Outlook capitalized that for me, and I had to change it > back...) > > I believe he is talking about providing such a service. Of course, I've > heard of companies that outsource their entire livelihoods and charge > their own customers out the nose for proxy. > > I'm not sure if he's trying to simply determine if a change has been > made or if he is trying to notify people of the particular item that > has > been posted. > > Clarifications, Ryan? > > </clippity> > > > Hey, > This is strange, I didnt get Tedds message but only got to read it > through yours. > > Sorry for the mixup, yes, was thinking of making something like this > and offer it for free, its a bit of both: what you and Tedd said. > > I want to check if a new post has been published AND get the text+url > of the post to send out to people along with the link to it. > > To make matters worse, i think i am a bit confused about the feeds > themselves... i used to work with RSS feeds from Yahoo! and others > (example: http://www.php.net/news.rss) but they used to come > via XML... > but now i see a lot of sites using something different via "feedburner" > (example http://feeds.feedburner.com/eZeeDotse) or > wordpress' default > feed (example: http://www.ballz.info/feed/) > > um... help? Ryan, If it's RSS, I think it's going to be XML regardless of the language they're using to assemble it (Perl, PHP, ASP, etc.). I might be wrong, but I thought that's part of what made it RSS. I'm afraid to click on a site with the url "ballz.info" while I'm at work. :D Any other WP feed examples? Todd Boyd Web Programmer