Add-On Releases - vBPinger - Ping on new threads, articles, blogs

I wrote this for my board and thought others would benefit from it.

This mod will cause vbulletin to ping a list of sites in the ACP that you add to the list. I have it set to pingomatic by default. But you can add others to the list as well. Note that I have just used it with pingomatic.

You can also disallow certain forums from being pings by listing them in the ignore forum box.

You can also choose to only ping on certain items. So you can turn on and off pinging on articles, blogs, or threads.

There is a debug option. It does not work in IE since IE doesn't like the xml that is used. It works in Firefox.

In addition, you can set your user agent to pass to the ping sites.

The hooks used are:

• blog_post_updateentry_new
• vbcms_article_save_end
• newthread_post_complete

Instructions are to

• Download the zip file
• Unzip the zip file
• Import the product file product-bvs03_vbpinger.xml through your ACP.
• Then goto the settings page and set them up to ignore your private forums and disallow any pinging that you do not want to have occur. As well as set the user agent to another value if you want.

[magmf]

His code actually is not working correctly for websites that have like /ping/RPC2 like blogsearch of google


To make it work I had to replace his ping function to

	function pingsite($sitetoping,$sourcetitle, $sourceurl, $debugping = false)
	{


$content = <<<EOT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>weblogUpdates.ping</methodName>
<params>
 <param>
  <value>
   <string>$sourcetitle</string>
  </value>
 </param>
 <param>
  <value>
   <string>$sourceurl</string>
  </value>
 </param>
</params>
</methodCall>
EOT;


$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $sitetoping);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, trim($content)); 
$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch); 
	 

	} //end function

With this you should be able to ping any website obviously your php need be compiled with curl support

[fai99al99]

very nice MOD !

[zorcocuq]

Good ping list in 2015

rpc.pingomatic.com
rpc.twingly.com
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
api.feedster.com/ping
api.moreover.com/RPC2
api.moreover.com/ping
bblog.com/ping.php
blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2
www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
www.blogsnow.com/ping
www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
bulkfeeds.net/rpc
www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
ping.blo.gs/
ping.feedburner.com
ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
www.feedsubmitter.com
blo.gs/ping.php
www.pingerati.net
www.pingmyblog.com
geourl.org/ping
ipings.com
topicexchange.com/RPC2
www.weblogalot.com/ping
xping.pubsub.com/ping