<?php
function ping_help($section) {
switch ($section) {
case 'admin/help#ping':
$output = '<p>'. t('The ping module is useful for notifying interested sites that your site has changed. It automatically sends notifications (called "pings") to the <a href="@external-http-pingomatic-com">pingomatic</a> service to tell it that your site has changed. In turn pingomatic will ping other services such as weblogs.com, Technorati, blo.gs, BlogRolling, Feedster.com, Moreover, etc.', array('@external-http-pingomatic-com' => 'http://pingomatic.com/')) .'</p>';
$output .= '<p>'. t('The ping module requires <code>cron</code> or a similar periodic job scheduler to be enabled.') .'</p>';
$output .= '<p>'. t('For more information please read the configuration and customization handbook <a href="@ping">Ping page</a>.', array('@ping' => 'http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/ping/')) .'</p>';
return $output;
}
}
function ping_cron() {
global $base_url;
if (variable_get('site_name', 0)) {
if (db_num_rows(db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE status = 1 AND (created > '". variable_get('cron_last', time()) ."' OR changed > '". variable_get('cron_last', time()) ."')"))) {
_ping_notify(variable_get('site_name', ''), $base_url);
}
}
}
function _ping_notify($name, $url) {
module_invoke_all('ping', $name, $url);
}
function ping_ping($name = '', $url = '') {
$result = xmlrpc('http://rpc.pingomatic.com', 'weblogUpdates.ping', $name, $url);
if ($result === FALSE) {
watchdog('directory ping', t('Failed to notify pingomatic.com (site).'), WATCHDOG_WARNING);
}
}