Weblog ping component
Ping 1.0.0 is a component for pinging xml-rpc updating services (such as rpc.weblogs.com or rpc.technorati.com). To ping just select “Component - Ping - Ping” at the backend. You can edit list of rpc servers which to ping.
Downloads:
ZIP: com_ping.zip (TARGZ: com_ping.tar.gz)
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September 18th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Redownload Zip archive if you have an error [”PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10)”] installing it.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Hello!
Interesting component. What section/category does it send? I ran a quick test, and it didn’t seem to give me any options on that. Does it just send everything in content?
Thanks!
Glen
September 18th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Glen Chancy:
It sends only “the fact” that site has been changed (so, it doesn’t send content itself).
This allows to various news and blogs search engines (e.g. technorati.com) faster update information about your site.
By the way, you can add
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
to servers list (Component - Ping - Servers) to more faster reindexing site by Google and Yahoo.
Read more in wikipedia.org.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:43 am
Thanks for this component, this is an excellent tool that finally enables Joomla to ping!
With some of the preset services, I get errors though. The message is almost always about having an “invalid (not well-formed) token at line 11, column 32, byte 151″.
I get this error (or a simpler error message) from ping.bloggers.jp, rpc.weblogs.com, ping.syndic8.com, rpc.technorati.com, and api.moreover.com.
blog.goo.ne.jp complains about a “not well-formed token on line 11, column 36, byte index 173, fault code -32700″.
services.newsgator.com said “HTTP/1.1 400 Cannot parse request”.
All other services accepted the ping.
Any chance you could look into this?
Thanks again, and kind regards,
Zorro
September 18th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Solved it myself!
I found out that line 11 of the sent data package comes from the variable $mosConfig_sitename. I have a German umlaut in my site’s name, that’s what made the ping services choke.
I put my site’s name inside the code in admin.ping.php, without the umlaut. Now the pings were all successful.
Many thanks again for an excellent component!
Kind regards,
Zorro
September 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
When I select “Component - Ping - Ping,” I get “Internet Explorer Cannot Display This Webpage.”
Am I doing something wrong?
September 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Max:
Look at error log on your server. It may well be that component cannot connect to remote server because of your server restrictions.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
How would I access those (sorry)?
And what would I do if that were the case?
September 20th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Max:
You can usually find the errorlog in the control panel which gives by hoster.
If connection with other servers is forbidden, then there’s nothing to be done. But basically this problem appears on free hostings.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Hi There! This link is not Working
September 21st, 2007 at 12:20 am
Argetim:
What link?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:04 am
thanks another great addon..
Now if only there was a way to have this ping the servers when you add new content like wp..
October 7th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Zorro:
Apparently, the right solution is to replace
$sitetitle = $mosConfig_sitename;to
$sitetitle = htmlentities($mosConfig_sitename);in admin.ping.php
October 10th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Thanks for the followup! I’ll make the adjustment you suggested.
Kind regards,
Zorro
December 20th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Thanks for
January 8th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Hi!
I would like the component to send a ping for some specific files on our website (www.icity.se/blogg/username1, www.icity.se/blogg/username2, www.icity.se/blogg/username3 … etc).
Is that possible to do?
January 10th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Christian:
I have not absolutely understood, what exactly you want. Please, describe it in more detail.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Work your plugin with Joomla 1.5.01?
March 1st, 2008 at 3:23 am
I didn’t test it with Joomla!1.5.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Work great! Im using it now. Thanks for this nice work for joomla user.
Regards,
Donna
June 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
This cannot even be installed on J!1.5, the installator refuses saying:
Error! Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file in the package.
June 10th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
This component for Joomla!1.0.x only.
I worked on new version of this component both for 1.0.x and 1.5.x, but I have no free time to finish it (I'll try to release it in July/August).
June 27th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I become a error:
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to blogsearch.google.com:80 in /data/www//html/administrator/components/com_ping/admin.ping.php on line 40
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
Cannot open connection: Connection timed out (110)
And this for all services…
Whats wrong ?
June 27th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Sachse, it means that your hoster doesn't allow connection to external sites.
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
any news about version joomla 1.5 ?
August 4th, 2008 at 12:01 am
What is the status of a 1.5 version?
August 10th, 2008 at 4:54 am
I`ll wait for a J1.5 version… thanks
September 24th, 2008 at 6:17 am
any news about version Joomla 1.5?
September 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Hi there: Do you have any on the automatic ping for Joomla 1.5?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 am
Anxiously waiting on version for Joomla v1.5 !! Any status update?
October 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Interested in trying your Joomla! 1.5 ping add-on. Sound like a necessity for Joomla! Hope you get some free time to finish it up.
October 29th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
When will this work natively for Joomla 1.5
November 1st, 2008 at 8:12 am
Joomla 1.5 can not install
November 17th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I make a version for J!1.5 and send it to several testers. If they don't find errors, I release it to public.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Any news about the new version for Joomla 1.5?
January 10th, 2009 at 5:44 am
we are waiting for joomla 1.5 version of the component and also waiting for google autoping for joomla 1.5
thanks for your work regards.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:39 am
i hope this component support joomla 1.5. i will use it at http://baliseminyakvillasrental.com
January 20th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Any update on this for 1.5?
Thanks
February 16th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Hi,
first of all i am sorry for my poor english. I am using Weblog ping component with joomla 1.0.15…i have added a server list which is given below…when i click Component -> Ping -> Ping ….browser work for sometime…after that one blank index2.php file autometically download..i cant see any success or failure messege.. is it working?
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogpeople.net/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com.bd/ping/RPC2
May 12th, 2009 at 4:42 am
I try it as soon as download at joomla 1.5.8. but setup is error. Any new version for it?
June 9th, 2009 at 6:53 am
there is no news for joomla 1.5 component.