How do you automate an rss feed?

Report · Apr 28, 2008

I have a .cfm page that generates an RSS feed. Everything is working fine, but how do I automate it so it pudates the feed file every say hour or so? Is there something I can put in the application file that regenerates the feed file so it is being updated?

Thanks.

Report · Apr 28, 2008

How about a scheduled task in the CF Admin?

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"siriiven" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I have a .cfm page that generates an RSS feed. Everything is working fine,
>but
> how do I automate it so it pudates the feed file every say hour or so? Is
> there
> something I can put in the application file that regenerates the feed file
> so
> it is being updated?
>
> Thanks.
>

Report · Apr 28, 2008

That sounds like a good idea, however I pay for hosting so I do not have access to the administrator. Any other ideas?

Report · Apr 28, 2008

siriiven wrote:
> That sounds like a good idea, however I pay for hosting so I do not have access to the administrator. Any other ideas?

Does your host not allow scheduled tasks? Many do, one just needs to
make a support request to have one set up.

If you are working with CF8, you can use the <cfschedule...> tag to set
up tasks with code, if this is not disabled by a host.

Report · Apr 28, 2008

siriiven wrote:
> That sounds like a good idea, however I pay for hosting so I do not have access to the administrator. Any other ideas?

P.S. If you have no access to the server either directly or indirectly
through support staff, you are not going to be able to schedule anything
directly.

A bit of a kludgey way to do this, if you have access to some
development box on which you can create a scheduled task, you can have
this task access a template on your public server that does the update
for you remotely.

Report · Apr 28, 2008

I do have CF8 hosting so I will look into the cfschedule tag. Either that or I will contact my ISP and see if I can set up a job.

Thanks for the info.