Open window (visit site) via php

[doa24uk]

Hi guys,

 

I want to simulate opening a window & actually visiting a site for the following url.

 

http://mysite.com/ping/?title=mytitle&blogurl=myurl&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on

 

Alternatively, you can use xml-rpc to send the details but I don't think that's possible with php is it??

 

This would mean dynamically creating an xml file from a mysql database ... and I don't think that's possible

[oni-kun]

You can dynamically create iframes of some sort (such as an autosurf). If you have the url in the GET then it'll be somewhat simple to browse the site within a frame.

[premiso]

To open a window you will need to use Javascript. As far as generating an XML file dynamically from a MySQL database you bet that is possible. If you create a loop of your own markup it would work or even try using simple_xml.

[doa24uk]

I should be more specific.

 

This will be run as a cron job therefore no user integration / visual output is required ... the script simply needs to open the URL to send the ping.

 

I've found the following code that apparently works for classic ASP ... can anyone translate this to php??

 

 

function SendPing(byval strBlogName, byval strBlogUrl, byval strPageUrl, byval strFeedUrl)

‘ build ping XMLRPC call
strData = “<?xml version=”"1.0″”?>”
strData = strData & “<methodCall>”
strData = strData & “<methodName>weblogUpdates.extendedPing</methodName>”
strData = strData & “<params>”
strData = strData & “<param>”
strData = strData & “<value>” & strBlogName & “</value>”
strData = strData & “</param>”
strData = strData & “<param>”
strData = strData & “<value>” & strBlogUrl & “</value>”
strData = strData & “</param>”
strData = strData & “<param>”
strData = strData & “<value>” & strPageUrl & “</value>”
strData = strData & “</param>”
strData = strData & “<param>”
strData = strData & “<value>” & strFeedUrl & “</value>”
strData = strData & “</param>”
strData = strData & “</params>”
strData = strData & “</methodCall>”

‘ post to Pingomatic XMLRPC ping URL
set objHttp = Server.CreateObject(”MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP”)
objHttp.open “POST”, “http://rpc.pingomatic.com/”, false
objHttp.setRequestHeader “Content-Type”, “text/xml”
objHttp.setRequestHeader “Content-Length”, len(strData)
objHttp.Send strData

‘ check response
if (objHttp.status = 200) then
strReturn = objHttp.responseText
end if

‘ release object
set objHttp = nothing

‘ passback
SendPing = strReturn

end function

strData = SendPing(”The Title Of Your Website”, “The URL of your website”, “The URL of the new article”, “The URL of your RSS feed”)