Can anyone tell me how I can add a feature that once I have registered a feed and imported it for the first time, that I can also give PriceTapestry a URL to download the feed say every 5 days automatically and import it when done?
Cheers
Robert
I have root ssh on my server and I do have wget as well...
Cheers David
Excellent - and presumably then you have the ability to setup CRON jobs...?
It basically boils down to scheduling a CRON job to use wget to download the feeds; and then calling the import.php automation script which is part of the Price Tapestry distribution:
http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/7
I'll put some more comprehensive notes together on this.
Thanks David, once you have the guide together Ill implement it straight away...
Sorry about the delay in writing this; i'll try and have a go this weekend.
I have a cron job set up but it doesn't seem to run properly
it is :
cd /home/buy247/public_html/scripts; /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/buy247/public_html/scripts/import.php aw1.php
the code in aw1.php is
<?php
function download($file_source, $file_target) {
$rh = fopen($file_source, 'rb');
$wh = fopen($file_target, 'wb');
if ($rh===false || $wh===false) {
// error reading or opening file
return true;
}
while (!feof($rh)) {
if (fwrite($wh, fread($rh, 1024)) === FALSE) {
// 'Download error: Cannot write to file ('.$file_target.')';
return true;
}
}
fclose($rh);
fclose($wh);
// No error
return false;
}
//AW feeds
download('http://products.affilite.com/xmlproductoutput.php?mid=***&user=******&password=******&nozip=1','feed1.xml');
download('http://products.affiliate.com/xmlproductoutput.php?mid=***&user=******&password=******&nozip=1','feed2.xml');
?>does anyone see why this wouldn't work properly
also, can a script like this be made for tradedoubler that imports the files - gunzipping them as they are imported to my webspce?
Regards
Phil
Hi Phil,
I'll cover unzip and gunzipping in the tutorial.
With regards to your script; I notice that you've cron'ed the import.php command, but with the parameter being the name "aw1.php". The parameter to import.php is either a filename, or @ALL or @MODIFIED.
Assuming that your aw1.php script is in the scripts directory, my guess from looking at what you have above is that the cron statement should be (with newlines at each semi-colon for clarity):
cd /home/buy247/public_html/scripts;
/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/buy247/public_html/scripts/aw1.php;
/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/buy247/public_html/scripts/import.php @MODIFIED;...so the process is 1) Change directory to "scripts", 2) Run your aw1.php script to download the files, and finally 3) run import.php @MODIFIED to import any updated feeds.
thanks Dave
Working 100% now, thanks AGAIN!
Hi,
First draft of a tutorial now posted here:
http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/198
Thanks david, looks pretty straight forward... gonna give it ago today.
Robert
Hi Robert,
I'm going to write an article on this as it's something most users are going to want to do. Quick questions;
1) Do you have SSH or Telnet access to your server?
2) If you do, do you have permission to use the wget command?