Posted by Adam on 12/22/07 09:28

On Dec 21, 2:12 pm, Bucky <uw_badg...@email.com> wrote:
> I want to make something where I can schedule future blog posts, and
> it will automatically publish them to Xanga. I have a web host with
> Linux, MySQL, PHP, cron, etc.
>
> Type up blog post and future date into MySQL.
> Cron job scheduled every day, check if blog post needs to be published
> today.
> If so, somehow log into Xanga and fill out the forms and submit.
>
> The piece I'm missing is how to log into Xanga and fill out the forms.
> Can this be done with PHP from the server? What are the "technologies"
> that I need to use? Thanks!

I haven't done this before but my guess is you would have to manual
create and send the POST message to the xanga site to login.
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

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