Fetching news every hour using cronjob. I hope it works.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/includes/fetch-news.sh b/includes/fetch-news.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..02c11b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/includes/fetch-news.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+#    Fetches project news and saves it for local use.
+#
+
+/usr/bin/wget -q -O /home/groups/t/th/themanaworld/htdocs/includes/rss2_projnews.tmp 'http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=106790&rss_fulltext=1' > /dev/null
+/bin/mv -f /home/groups/t/th/themanaworld/htdocs/includes/rss2_projnews.tmp \
+           /home/groups/t/th/themanaworld/htdocs/includes/rss2_projnews.cache
diff --git a/includes/news.php b/includes/news.php
index 52ad91e..f064b62 100644
--- a/includes/news.php
+++ b/includes/news.php
@@ -3,11 +3,18 @@
 // This code uses the "DOM XML" extension, which is only available with PHP 4.
 // Be sure to update it to use the "XML", "DOM" or "XMLReader" extensions when
 // SF upgrades to PHP 5.
+//
+// The news is cached locally using a cronjob which runs in the 9th minute of
+// every hour:
+//
+// 9 * * * * /home/groups/t/th/themanaworld/htdocs/includes/fetch-news.sh 
+//
 
-$feedurl = "http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=106790&rss_fulltext=1";
+//$feedurl = "http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=106790&rss_fulltext=1";
+$feedurl = "includes/rss2_projnews.cache";
 
 if (!$dom = domxml_open_file($feedurl)) {
-    echo "Error while fetching news feed.\n";
+    echo "Error while opening news feed.\n";
     exit;
 }