Comments on: ‘tweetFromFile’ PHP Class

By: kyio

kyio — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:33:17 +0000

this works perfect to me! now i can publish emails that i dont want to read myself to twitter 🙂

By: eugene

eugene — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:40:53 +0000

chron job for sure
but if you feel like testing it in a browser window you can always use PHP’s usleep http://ca2.php.net/usleep

By: Chris Gedrim

Chris Gedrim — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:13:16 +0000

@Robert That would indeed work, but your crontab entry could be tidied up a little:

*/10 * * * * wget --spider -q "http://www.newsblur.com/reader/refresh_all_feeds"

Personally, and for maximum functionality I would write a bash script to use php5-cli to execute the php file, and send the outputs to log files. The script could still be used by web-side apps in the normal manner.

By: Robert Samuel Clay

Robert Samuel Clay — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:08:25 +0000

No need to use Apache. If you want to call a page at a fixed interval, use ‘crontab -e’ to edit your crontab adn add a line similar to this:

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * wget --spider -q "http://www.newsblur.com/reader/refresh_all_feeds"

This particular crontab entry works every 10 minutes (on the X:00, X:10, X:20, etc). You should have wget, but if not, it’s easy to install.

By: Jack F

Jack F — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:51:23 +0000

Wow pretty awesome! Thanks James – even if I can hardily understand the code!

Jack.