Re: Monitor a WP website

At 3:20 PM -0400 6/24/08, Daniel Brown wrote:

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:46 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

    Tedd,

    As usual, a good idea.  However, with the abundance of blogs and

the like containing Google AdWords or similar --- or even accepting comments, changing the time of day, holding a random image, et cetera --- the page content will change frequently.

Okay, then get_file_contents(), parse between the tags that would contain the stuff you want to monitor, hash, store that, and do what I said.

    You'd get more emails than this list got when my PostTrack system

went haywire.

Egads, not that!?! I had bits all over my desktop -- it looked like an ant farm. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com