Implementing Pingers
If you are interested in pinging one of the many blog pinger/update sites, you might want to consider Ping-O-Matic. If you ping them them, they will in turn ping several services by default for you:
- Weblogs.com
- Blo.gs
- Technorati
MyYahoo!(currently disabled)- BlogRolling
- BlogChatter
- PubSub
https://rpc.pingomatic.com/ to your configuration. If you use a lesser known blogging package (*cough* PolarBlog *cough*) you may need to add it yourself or run a separate script to do the pinging for you. I'm implementing this in PolarBlog with an option to turn it off and on using code similar to the following test code:
//--- Includes
require('XmlRpc_class.php');
define("XMLRPC_DEBUG", 1); //debugging only!!!
$method = 'weblogUpdates.ping';
$blog_name = 'PolarLava';
$blog_url = 'https://www.polarlava.com/blog/';
$site = 'rpc.pingomatic.com';
$location = '/RPC2';
$params = array(XMLRPC_prepare($blog_name),XMLRPC_prepare($blog_url));
list($stat, $result) = XMLRPC_request( $site, $location, $method, $params );
echo "STAT: $stat<br/>";
foreach ($result as $key => $value) {
echo(" $key => $value " . '<br/>');
}
When run, this will (hopefully) return the following:
STAT: 1 flerror => message => Pings being forwarded to 7 services!Which indicates that this was successful.
Now before you can use this you need to grab Keith Devens' XML-RPC Library and save that in a separate include file. That's what is really doing the heavy lifting here.
Hopefully this might be of use to you if you've been trying to figure out how to implement a pinger. Confession time…this entry is basically a reworking of a Simple way to Ping using PHP and XML-RPC. That's basically where all of the information you are reading here came from. Thanks, Kris.