I have a very simple PHP script that I use to publish interesting links that I find in a filtered list on my site, as well as in my rss feed (which feedburner then also tweets when pinging).
I wonder how difficult it would be to add a “queue” in which I could send several records at once and plan a future time / date for each of them?
Similar to what Twuffer does for Twitter or Tumblr and Wordpress for blog posts.
Is cron jobs required? Perhaps with my PHP script writing another file "drafts.txt" if it is a future post and a scheduled cron to check if there is a time / date = and then write it to other files?
I am obviously new to this - but I would appreciate any help! Thank!
Here is my current little script:
<?php
if($_POST['Submit'])
{
$category = $_POST['category'];
$linkurl = $_POST['linkurl'];
$linkname = $_POST['linkname'];
$description = $_POST['description'];
$submittername = $_POST['submittername'];
$submitterurl = $_POST['submitterurl'];
$postdate = $_POST['postdate'];
// Remove slashes.
$description = stripslashes($description);
//the data for list.txt
$data = "
<li class='$category'>
<h3><a href='$linkurl' target='_blank'>$linkname</a></h3>
<p><b>$description</b></p>
<p><small>Submitted by: <a href='$submitterurl' target='_blank'>$submittername</a><i> - $postdate</i></small></p>
</li>
";
$filename = "list.txt";
$fp = fopen( $filename,"r");
$OldData = fread($fp, 80000);
fclose( $fp );
$New = "$data$OldData";
$fp = fopen( $filename,"w");
if(!$fp) die("Cannot write $filename .");
fwrite($fp, $New, 800000);
fclose( $fp );
//the data for rss.php
$feeddata = "
<item>
<title>Supplement: $linkname</title>
<link>$linkurl</link>
<description>$description</description>
</item>
";
$ffilename = "rss.txt";
$ff = fopen( $ffilename,"r");
$OldfeedData = fread($ff, 80000);
fclose( $ff );
$New = "$feeddata$OldfeedData";
$ff = fopen( $ffilename,"w");
if(!$ff) die("Cannot write $ffilename .");
fwrite($ff, $New, 800000);
fclose( $ff );
print("<h1>Success!</h1><a href='add.php'>Add Another?</a>");
}
?>
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