AlbertoGuys,
I am working a couple of function for a TV Channel website (www.canal-en-vivo.com) which changes the status of posts (ie. channels) based on whether the feed is live or not. I put together the following two functions, but they don't seem to work. Would you guys take a peek at the general code structure and let me know if you see something weird:
This function determines whether the feed is live or not by checking an URL "$feedurlstr"
// This will be the function that determines whether given channel is live or not
function LiveOrNot($feedurlstr) {
global $result;
// create curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $feedurlstr);
//return the transfer as a string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// $output contains the output string
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
$string = "PP['channel_live'] = true";
if(strstr($output,$string)) {
$result = "live";
} else {
$result = "notlive";
}
return $result;
}And this function runs a SQL query which changes the status each post based on whether the previous function spits live or notlive.
// Function that runs SQL query based on channel status
function RunChannelLiveQuery() {
global $key;
global $post_ids;
$key = 'feed';
$post_ids = array(2263, 2249); //this will change into a SQL query that pulls al the IDs
foreach ($post_ids as $id) {
$feedurl = get_post_custom_values($key, $id);
// turns $feedurl into string
$feedurlstr = implode($feedurl);
// Find whether feed is live or not
LiveOrNot($feedurlstr);
// Performs DB Query based on live or not
if ( $result == "live" ) {
mysql_query ("UPDATE 'wp_posts' SET 'post_status' = 'publish' WHERE 'post_id' = '$id'") or die(mysql_error());
}
if ( $result == "notlive" ) {
mysql_query ("UPDATE 'wp_posts' SET 'post_status' = 'draft' WHERE 'post_id' = '$id'") or die(mysql_error());
}
}
}Do you guys see something wrong with the structure of these functions? Any feedback would be awesome gang - thanks a ton!
