Re: Monitor a WP website

Tedd, very good your solution. Thanks for sharing. Regards, Thiago On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:22 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > At 3:50 PM -0400 6/24/08, Daniel Brown wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> Even if you did use the *file_get_contents()* method you mentioned >> (;-P), how would you know between which tags you should parse? Each >> installation of Wordpress will likely be different, so the HTML source >> will differ vastly. >> >> I'm not shooting holes in your logic. I'm prodding you to get >> that big brain of yours working to churn out an answer that I'm sure >> is in there. > > > If I was actually confronted with the specifics of the problem, then I could > figure it out. > > If it were me, I would look at the site I was trying to scrub and figure out > where the comments I'm interested in keeping tabs on are being kept -- like > in between the <div id="comments"> tag and then parse on that. > > Considering that every site is different, I would also record the "tab of > interest", as well as the url and hash for scrubbing in the dB. > > Of course, any of those data could change -- BUT -- the method would still > send out an email in that event and from there you would have to re-consider > what you want to do. > > It's not rocket science -- but occasionally my solutions leave craters. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com > http://ancientstones.com > http://earthstones.com