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So are we saying that Andys plugin uses the nph-verify.pl?. The only problem that I can see with validating links is that should a person have spelled their URL incorrectly and it slips through the admin net, a user could end up getting false emails as their site is fine but links is firing blanks. Should this is not true then please let me know, in no way am I putting these activity plugins down as I would gladly love a plugin that could do such a thing (at the right price of course). If Manu could send me his URL for the plugin it would be great I would like to have a little look. As for cron jobs exactly how does one set up a cron job to run the nph-verify.pl script as Manu has? This seems like an ingenious solution. As I have mentioned in the previous posts, a plugin that could tell the user that their site was down could be an asset to a your site enforcing a brand in a considerate way.
Regards
Adrian
No, my plugin uses the nph-verify.pl!
If a website is fine but the url was incorrect at the submission, the link-owner gets an error-message, thats true. But the message is template-driven and you have also the tag <%URL%> for use so the reciever of an error-message could quickly see that this was in reason of a wrong url and that he should modify his link.
nph-verify.pl as cron (from my VerifyMail-Plugin [About]):
Using nph-verify.cgi You have to possibilities running nph-verify.cgi.
First is to run it manually
(Admin->Database->Verify Links) Second is to set it up as a cron-job (as I did):
Examples: /path/to/cgi-bin/admin/nph-verify.cgi --check_from 7
this will check every link that has not been checked for seven days
other nph-verify.cgi - options:
--check_problem
--check_new
--check_status status_code
--check_all
best time to run nph-verify.cgi via cron is at night, when there is low traffic at your server.
Regards,
Manu
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