Fetching remote news files

Anon

I'm working on a site that want's updated news from another site on their page, and I want it to update about once an hour, but I don't have cron. I thought about each time the page is requested, it checks the last modified date on a file, and if it's within an hour, it reads it, if not it runs a function to fetch it and save it into the cached file.

Does anyone know how to do this? I've never checked times and stuff on files, I just want an if statement to check the last modified date. Can anyone post an example?

Thanks,

Danny

spacemax

<code>
<table>
<?
$cashetime=3600;
$cashefile="./tmp/newscash.txt";
$indexfile="./tmp/nachrichten.txt";
$current_time=split(" ",microtime(),2);
if(($current_time[1]-filemtime($cashefile)>$cashetime)|| (!file_exists($cashefile) || (!filesize($cache_file)))){
$fpwrite = fopen($cashefile, "w");
$nfile=fopen($indexfile,"w");
$file = fopen("http://www.sfdrs.ch/news/datensda/nachrichten.txt", "r");
if (!$file) {
echo "<p>Unable to open remote file.\n";
exit;
}
$line="";
$anzZeilen=0;
while ((!feof($file))) {
$line = fgets($file, 1024);
fputs($nfile,$line);
if (eregi('<param name="desc([0-9])" value="[^|]([^"]*)">', $line, $out)) {
fputs($fpwrite, "<tr><td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"shownews.php?getnews=$out[1]\"><img src=\"images/tool-post.gif\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\"></a></td><td style=\"font-size: 10px;\">".substr($out[2], 1)."</td></tr>\n");
}
}
fclose($file);
fclose($fpwrite);
fclose($nfile);
}
include($cashefile);
?>
</table>
</code>

spacemax

this is getting the parameterfile of the newsapplet of www.sfdrs.ch and parses it into the messages. the samething i did for the message itselfe. have a look at my website http://www.nufer.org/ for the running example..

Anon

Dude, that's great!

Thanks very much, I was only expecting a little command.

Danny

Anon

Yeh, that's great.

Thanks very much, you saved me spending ages trying to figure it out myself!!

Cool site, but I'm gave up german a few years ago!! lol!

Huh, "TOP 10 Links", isn't that english!?