automatic posting at a certain time.

prc

I got a news system that I want to have a 'bot' post a comment at a certain time of the day.

Is it possible to make a separate script to post a comment?

How would I go about this?

bogu

Is it on your site or on other site?

If is on your site, u need to make the script that insert into your database and set a cron that run that script (if u are on a linux server, if not look for something similar)

If is on other sites u need to make a script that use CURL lib to post a comment and set a cron that run that script ...

prc

bogu wrote:
.. u need to make a script that use CURL lib to post a comment and set a cron that run that script ...

How would I go about doing this?

bogu

Search this forum for CURL, there are lots of examples ...

prc

Cheers, see what I can find.

Edit:

Any guidence were I could find a simple posting script, I'v looked everywere.

bradgrafelman

And never forget the trusty manual: [man]curl[/man]

prc

first place I looked. 🙂

Is there anywere were they give you the script and explain what each part does?

bogu

Did u try bradgrafelman link? there u should find everything u want ...

prc

yer that was the first place I looked.

I havent really found anything that can help me get the idear of how it works...

Installer

Here is a very basic example that can be easily modified to make a simple http post.