- Made the ping module ping pingomatic.com, which in turn, will ping all the major ping services.
  Less code to ping more services.

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Drupal x.x.x, xxxx-xx-xx
     * improved search indexing.
     * improved search output.
 - syndication:
-    * added support for RSS ping-notifications of http://yahoo.com/.
+    * made the ping module ping pingomatic.com which, in turn, will ping all the major ping services.
 - flood control mechanism:
     * added a mechanism to throttle certain operations.
 - usability:

modules/ping.module

@@ -13,15 +13,8 @@ function ping_help($section) {
   switch ($section) {
     case 'admin/help#ping':
       $output .= t("
-      <p>Drupal can automatically send notifications (called \"pings\") to the following sites to tell them that your site has changed.  To do so, Drupal implements the %weblogs-XML.</p>
-      <ul>
-       <li>%weblogs, a web site that tracks and displays links to changed weblogs and news-oriented web sites.  Many services use %weblogs to determine if a site has been recently updated.</li>
-       <li>%weblogs-RSS for RSS, a web site that tracks and displays links to recently changed RSS feeds in XML format.</li>
-       <li>%blo-gs, a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like %weblogs, %blogtracker and %blogrolling. To get your Drupal site listed, %blo-gs must be informed about your site's updates.  This is the job of the ping module and when installed, the administrator doesn't have to do anything to participate in the %blo-gs system.</li>
-       <li>%technorati, a web site that tracks links between websites in real time, and can answer the question 'who linked to me in the last hour?'</li>
-       <li>%yahoo users can track RSS feeds, so when it is pinged, %yahoo will immediately queue up refreshing your site's RSS feed so that it displays your latest content to its users.</li>
-      </ul>
-      <p>The ping feature requires crontab.</p>", array('%weblogs' => '<a href="http://www.weblogs.com/">Weblogs.com</a>', '%weblogs-XML' => '<a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom/">'. t('XML-RPC interface of weblogs.com') .'</a>', '%weblogs-RSS' => '<a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsComForRSS">'. t('Weblogs.Com for RSS') .'</a>', '%weblogs-RSS-changes' => '<a href="http://www.weblogs.com/rssUpdates/changes.xml">'. t('the weblogs.com for RSS') .'</a>', '%blo-gs' => '<a href="http://blo.gs/">blo.gs</a>','%blogtracker' => '<a href="http://www.dansanderson.com/blogtracker">blogtracker</a>', '%blogrolling' => '<a href="http://www.blogrolling.com">blogrolling.com</a>', '%blo-gs-XML' => '<a href="http://blo.gs/ping.php">'. t('XML-RPC interface of blo.gs').'</a>', '%technorati' => '<a href="http://www.technorati.com/">'. t("Technorati"). '</a>', '%yahoo' => '<a href="http://my.yahoo.com/">My Yahoo!</a>'));
+      <p>Drupal can automatically send notifications (called \"pings\") to the %pingomatic to tell them that your site has changed.  In turn pingomatic.com will ping other services like weblogs.com, Technorati, blo.gs, BlogRolling, Feedster.com, Moreover, etc.</p>
+      <p>The ping feature requires crontab.</p>", array('%pingomatic' => '<a href="http://pingomatic.com/">'));
       break;
 
     case 'admin/modules#description':
@@ -60,68 +53,17 @@ function _ping_notify($name, $url) {
 /**
  * Implementation of hook_ping().
  *
- * Notifies weblogs.com, blo.gs, and technorati.com of changes at this site.
+ * Notifies pingomatic.com, blo.gs, and technorati.com of changes at this site.
  */
 function ping_ping($name = '', $url = '') {
 
   $feed = url('node/feed', NULL, NULL, TRUE);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/RPC2', 'rpc.weblogs.com', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($url)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify weblogs.com (site).'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/RPC2', 'rssrpc.weblogs.com', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('rssUpdate', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($feed)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify weblogs.com (RSS).'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/', 'ping.blo.gs', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval($feed)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify blo.gs.'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/rpc/ping', 'rpc.technorati.com', 80);
-
+  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/', 'rpc.pingomatic.com', 80);
   $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($url)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify technorati.com.'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/RPC2', 'api.my.yahoo.com', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($feed)));
-
   $result = $client->send($message);
 
   if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify yahoo.com.'));
+    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify pingomatic.com (site).'));
   }
 }
 

modules/ping/ping.module

@@ -13,15 +13,8 @@ function ping_help($section) {
   switch ($section) {
     case 'admin/help#ping':
       $output .= t("
-      <p>Drupal can automatically send notifications (called \"pings\") to the following sites to tell them that your site has changed.  To do so, Drupal implements the %weblogs-XML.</p>
-      <ul>
-       <li>%weblogs, a web site that tracks and displays links to changed weblogs and news-oriented web sites.  Many services use %weblogs to determine if a site has been recently updated.</li>
-       <li>%weblogs-RSS for RSS, a web site that tracks and displays links to recently changed RSS feeds in XML format.</li>
-       <li>%blo-gs, a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like %weblogs, %blogtracker and %blogrolling. To get your Drupal site listed, %blo-gs must be informed about your site's updates.  This is the job of the ping module and when installed, the administrator doesn't have to do anything to participate in the %blo-gs system.</li>
-       <li>%technorati, a web site that tracks links between websites in real time, and can answer the question 'who linked to me in the last hour?'</li>
-       <li>%yahoo users can track RSS feeds, so when it is pinged, %yahoo will immediately queue up refreshing your site's RSS feed so that it displays your latest content to its users.</li>
-      </ul>
-      <p>The ping feature requires crontab.</p>", array('%weblogs' => '<a href="http://www.weblogs.com/">Weblogs.com</a>', '%weblogs-XML' => '<a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom/">'. t('XML-RPC interface of weblogs.com') .'</a>', '%weblogs-RSS' => '<a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsComForRSS">'. t('Weblogs.Com for RSS') .'</a>', '%weblogs-RSS-changes' => '<a href="http://www.weblogs.com/rssUpdates/changes.xml">'. t('the weblogs.com for RSS') .'</a>', '%blo-gs' => '<a href="http://blo.gs/">blo.gs</a>','%blogtracker' => '<a href="http://www.dansanderson.com/blogtracker">blogtracker</a>', '%blogrolling' => '<a href="http://www.blogrolling.com">blogrolling.com</a>', '%blo-gs-XML' => '<a href="http://blo.gs/ping.php">'. t('XML-RPC interface of blo.gs').'</a>', '%technorati' => '<a href="http://www.technorati.com/">'. t("Technorati"). '</a>', '%yahoo' => '<a href="http://my.yahoo.com/">My Yahoo!</a>'));
+      <p>Drupal can automatically send notifications (called \"pings\") to the %pingomatic to tell them that your site has changed.  In turn pingomatic.com will ping other services like weblogs.com, Technorati, blo.gs, BlogRolling, Feedster.com, Moreover, etc.</p>
+      <p>The ping feature requires crontab.</p>", array('%pingomatic' => '<a href="http://pingomatic.com/">'));
       break;
 
     case 'admin/modules#description':
@@ -60,68 +53,17 @@ function _ping_notify($name, $url) {
 /**
  * Implementation of hook_ping().
  *
- * Notifies weblogs.com, blo.gs, and technorati.com of changes at this site.
+ * Notifies pingomatic.com, blo.gs, and technorati.com of changes at this site.
  */
 function ping_ping($name = '', $url = '') {
 
   $feed = url('node/feed', NULL, NULL, TRUE);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/RPC2', 'rpc.weblogs.com', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($url)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify weblogs.com (site).'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/RPC2', 'rssrpc.weblogs.com', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('rssUpdate', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($feed)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify weblogs.com (RSS).'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/', 'ping.blo.gs', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval($url), new xmlrpcval($feed)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify blo.gs.'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/rpc/ping', 'rpc.technorati.com', 80);
-
+  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/', 'rpc.pingomatic.com', 80);
   $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($url)));
-
-  $result = $client->send($message);
-
-  if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify technorati.com.'));
-  }
-
-  unset($client);
-
-  $client = new xmlrpc_client('/RPC2', 'api.my.yahoo.com', 80);
-
-  $message = new xmlrpcmsg('weblogUpdates.ping', array(new xmlrpcval($name), new xmlrpcval($feed)));
-
   $result = $client->send($message);
 
   if (!$result || $result->faultCode()) {
-    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify yahoo.com.'));
+    watchdog('error', t('Failed to notify pingomatic.com (site).'));
   }
 }