Title: Picking Dev Brains
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Picking Dev Brains

 *  [abrazell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abrazell/)
 * (@abrazell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/)
 * I’d like to post this where I know there will be the most advanced users reading
   but this will have to suffice. 🙂 No offense to anyone, I just know this is rather
   advanced.
 * Without using a cron job (remember, this would have to work on a Win32 box as
   well), would there be anyway, using XMLRPC or other trick, to determine if an
   RSS feed has been updated.
 * The theory is is to write a plugin that will essentially merge entries from a
   friend’s RSS feed into my own blog. That’s the easy part. Figuring out when to
   query an updated feed is another.

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 *  [rustindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rustindy/)
 * (@rustindy)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/#post-150487)
 * innereyes.com right now just queries all the blogs’ RSS feeds each time the page
   loads. of course, that’s the dumb way to do it, and i’ll be fixing it later tonite.
 * the easiest way to handle it is to control the schedule on your own end – just
   store an entry in a database or text file with the last time the feeds were queried.
   then decide whether it should have a 60 minute refresh, or daily, or 5 minutes,
   or whatever. compare the current time against the stored time, and if more than
   X minutes have passed, re-query the feeds.
 * alternatively, figure out how “pingbacks” work and use that 🙂 it’s the hard 
   way, but it’s probably the best way
 *  Thread Starter [abrazell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abrazell/)
 * (@abrazell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/#post-150497)
 * yeah. The hard way. But that’s how I wanted to do it….
 *  [rustindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rustindy/)
 * (@rustindy)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/#post-150512)
 * yup, that’s the code i’m working on right now too – but in ASP, not PHP.
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/#post-150524)
 * I’m working on updated CG-Feedread to support publishing as posts into you blog(
   a ‘reblogger’). Rather than needing a cron job, it has its own timing system 
   for when the cache is outdated.
 * I agree that something like pingbacks is the ‘push’ method of notifying of updates.
   But if you check once every few hours, that’s pretty darn good unless someone’s
   posting multiple times per day… Depends on how ‘live’ you want it.
 * The advantage of using a cron job is that you can run it completely offline from
   the site processing…
 * At the same time, I don’t recommend pings more often than an hour, as it is hitting
   the site, and if you started doing checks measured in minutes it might start 
   adding up. Well, if many people were pinging the same feed at least… 😉
 * -d
 *  Thread Starter [abrazell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abrazell/)
 * (@abrazell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/#post-150536)
 * It’s not that I am opposed to croin on its merits. It’s that it won’t work on
   Windows and this plugin will be released, not just internal…
 *  [rustindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rustindy/)
 * (@rustindy)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/#post-150542)
 * almost any plugin can be converted to Windows – i got Spaminator and Keitai-mail
   both working on a windows server without much trouble. instead of `cron` you 
   use the “schedule tasks” thing 😉
 * as far as pingbacks go, it doesn’t mean that (for example) my site pings each
   of my hosted blogs every x minutes (be easier just to grab the RSS feeds then).
   it means that the blogs themselves ping my script when they’re updated. just 
   like `blo.gs` or the pingomatic server.
 *  Thread Starter [abrazell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abrazell/)
 * (@abrazell)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/picking-dev-brains/#post-150553)
 * > as far as pingbacks go, it doesn’t mean that (for example) my site pings each
   > of my hosted blogs every x minutes (be easier just to grab the RSS feeds then).
   > it means that the blogs themselves ping my script when they’re updated. just
   > like blo.gs or the pingomatic server.
 * That’s what I’m getting at. I want to be pinged by the blog when they post and
   then it becomes part of my blog. Now I assume the sending blog can put my xmlrpc.
   php in their sites to ping…. BUT…once it hits my blog, where to find that data
   to put in the database…?

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