How to automatically ping pingomatic in PHP?

Question

I want to automatically ping pingomatic when I update my blog, as wordpress does. Pingomatic uses XMLRPC, but I do not know how this works. Can someone help me.

Answer 1

At first glance it seems pretty simple. The form is a simple HTML form with the = get method, and I do not see any XMLRPC code. I would say that you just fill out the form once, click to submit, and then copy the resulting URL from the address bar in PHP http_get()or fopen(). The results page says, “Bookmark this page and then return it to auto-ping again,” so I'm sure a simple GET request is enough and there is no other magic.