Update automatically? about feed-on-feeds HOT 6 CLOSED

I use a cron job that runs curl against update-quiet.php. You can also just run update-quiet.php directly (also from cron). There's no reason to pass in a specific feed parameter unless you only want to update a single subscribed feed (but why would you want that?).

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Incidentally, I've started putting together an actual site (to hopefully replace the old feedonfeeds.com) which is currently at http://git.beesbuzz.biz/?p=FeedOnFeeds.git;a=summary - it's biased towards my own fork, of course (and I tend to be a bit more experimentally-biased in what I accept and change), although RomanSixty and I pull from each other fairly often.

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The original coder says to use something like this in cron:

/usr/bin/wget --output-document=/dev/null --output-file=/dev/null --http-user=feeds --http-passwd=myf33ds http://example.com/update-quiet.php

It should be possible to call the script directly from command line but I haven't tested it yet.

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It works from the command line or directly via cron by invoking update_quiet.php using a PHP interpreter (usually /usr/bin/php).

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There are actually good reasons to do it as a round-trip through curl/wget instead of from the command line:

• You can be sure that you're using the same PHP version (including modules etc.) as what's in use for the site
• If your hosting has execution time limits you can be certain that you're abiding by those (this is especially important on shared hosting providers, which may boot you off for "abuse" if you take an endrun around those)
• It can take advantage of whatever fastcgi or bytecode-caching things and database connection pooling on the webserver
• You can decouple the update cron job from the server it's actually running on; again, very useful for shared hosting situations, and other scenarios where you don't have user access to cron from the webserver

So basically I would ONLY recommend using the curl/wget approach, and NOT running it through a commandline interpreter.

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I'm running FOF on my own servers so I didn't put much thought into why one should use wget instead of a simple shell call to run updates, but those are some good points.

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