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Posted by Realtime on 12/22/05 15:03
Is there any ready made software to accomplish this ?
Hello Peter,
> Following on from Realtime's message. . .
>
>> How do I go about writing a php application that will alert people in
>> a database
>> from different RSS news feeds from different sites. So lets say we
>> have
>> a database and user A has a list of news alerts he wants to be
>> alerted on.
>> So the application will go to a search engine that will bring up the
>> results
>> in XML. The results are then stored in the database. I just need
>> the logic
>> process. Because I am worried of the latency on the server. So how
>> can
>> i process multiple alerts per user? Or even process multiple users at
>> once.
> Well done for realising you need guidance.
>
> PHP is purely reactive. It bursts into life to process a HTTP request
> then dies until the next request. It only sends HTTP responses to
> whatever it was that sent the HTTP request.
>
> A grim hack might be meta refresh. A better solution is something
> other than PHP.
>
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