About this Plugin

This Plugin implements the client-part of the pingback mechanism as described in the Pingback specification, version 1.0 for Frog, a small and flexible CMS.

When a published page in Frog is saved, the plugin locate URLs with HTTP protocol in the page contents and send a ping to each link with a given pingback host.

Installation

  1. If not already done, install the current version of Frog (tested with 0.9.5)
  2. Download the recent version of the pingback client
  3. Extract the archive
  4. Copy the /pingmail-client directory to the /frog/plugin directory of your installation
  5. Activate the plugin in the Administration Tab

Issues

  • This plugin use file_get_contents, so allow_url_fopen have to be enabled in your php.ini.

Feedback

Send a mail to feedback@sebastian-joseph.de.

To-Do

  • domain blacklisting
  • ping caching to prevent spaming
  • skip URLs in PHP code
  • skip URLs in the Javascript source