'. t('The ping module is useful for notifying interested sites that your site has changed. It automatically sends notifications (called "pings") to the pingomatic 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/')) .'

'; $output .= '

'. t('The ping module requires cron or a similar periodic job scheduler to be enabled.') .'

'; $output .= t('

You can:

enable or disable the ping module at administer >> modules.
run your cron job at your sites cron page.
read about configuring cron jobs.

', array('%admin-modules' => url('admin/modules'), '%file-cron' => 'cron.php', '%external-http-drupal-org-node-23714' => 'http://drupal.org/node/23714')); $output .= '

'. t('For more information please read the configuration and customization handbook Ping page.', array('%ping' => 'http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/ping/')) .'

'; return $output; case 'admin/modules#description': return t('Alerts other sites when your site has been updated.'); } } /** * Implementation of hook_cron(). * * Fire off notifications of updates to remote sites. */ function ping_cron() { global $base_url; if (variable_get('site_name', 0) && variable_get('site_slogan', 0)) { if (db_num_rows(db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE status = 1 AND moderate = 0 AND (created > '". variable_get('cron_last', time()) ."' OR changed > '". variable_get('cron_last', time()) ."')"), 1)) { _ping_notify(variable_get('site_name', '') .' - '. variable_get('site_slogan', ''), $base_url); } } } /** * Call hook_ping() in all modules to notify remote sites that there is * new content at this one. */ function _ping_notify($name, $url) { module_invoke_all('ping', $name, $url); } /** * Implementation of hook_ping(). * * Notifies pingomatic.com, blo.gs, and technorati.com of changes at this site. */ function ping_ping($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); } }