Ping-o-matic RPC Interface
I’ve been looking at the RPC interface to Ping-O-Matic, as it pings loads of sites when you update your blog. WordPress does this automatically for me on this blog, but I’m going to have to work out how to do it myself for BritBlog. Alas, I can’t find any documentation for it 
Still, should be able to look at the code of WordPress to see what’s going on 
Thank you Open Source Software!
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August 19th, 2004 13:50
Doh! Reading the page slowly tells me that they use an interface the same as weblogs.com. Now to find out how that works…
August 19th, 2004 13:57
You can find general info about the XML-RPC protocol and the weblogs.com ping specification at xmlrpc.com. Currently, WordPress is using the Useful, Inc. PHP library for XML-RPC protocol handling. But we’re probably going to switch one day to Simon Willison’s IXR library.
Maybe those links will help you get started
August 19th, 2004 14:06
Thanks Dougal. Yes, I just discovered the specific page at http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom. I was thinking of using
PEAR’s XML_RPC package as I already make use of other PEAR packages on BritBlog. However, I will investigate these other tools too. Thanks again
August 19th, 2004 14:13
From what I understand, the PEAR XML-RPC package is just a slightly modified version of the Useful, Inc. library.
The nice thing about the IXR lib is that it abstracts things out a bit more. It doesn’t force you to “manually” encode/decode all of the data that you’re sending back and forth. When I originally created my Blog Service Pinger, I was using the Useful, Inc. libs. But when Matt and I relaunched it as Ping-O-Matic, I reprogrammed my routines using IXR, and it made the code a little simpler.
But either library will work fine. Good luck!
August 19th, 2004 14:24
Cheers. Now I just need some time…
August 20th, 2004 11:56
i use this every time i post.
its great…