Sharing content between separate Monkey sites

[harvey]

Would it be possible to share content between two separate Monkey sites?

For example an organisation has two divisions, both with its own individual Monkey based site, and they want a recruitment page on both. Is there any way of entering the job details on one site and have it appear on both?

[Colin]

Maybe through RSS? You'll need CRON access to do that but it's pretty straightforward with a plugin I have.


The other option is to run everything off one installation and have two different skins displayed through Domian/Skin mapping.

[harvey]

These are two existing installations so I think the second option could be a lot of work unfortunately.

How would the RSS option work?

[Colin]

You would need to set up a CRON job to run the rssupdate script for the definition that would include the job specs on one site and then on the other site you would need a CRON job that runs the getrss.php script (along with an RSS plugin and include that I can send you) that will then pull in the RSS feed from site 1 and display it on the second site.

Alternatively, if they're both on the same server it might be more feasible to write a plugin that just calls over to the other database and pulls the info out directly. That wouldn't be too hard - I could probably knock something together for you quite quickly.

[harvey]

I'd definitely be interested in the plugin for something else I'm playing with at the moment if thats OK.

If the second way isn't too much trouble it sounds a good option.

[harvey]

Is there any documentation for the rss functionality?

[Colin]

Not really at the moment. However, I can knock something together early next week.

I think the plugin would be easy enough. In the instance of this installation, would the database be on the same server for both sites, with the same login credentials?

[harvey]

No, in this instance the database is on the same server, but they have different login details.

PM Also sent about something else BTW Colin.

[Colin]

Originally Posted by harvey

No, in this instance the database is on the same server, but they have different login details.

PM Also sent about something else BTW Colin.

OK - looks like a slightly bigger piece of work, but reasonably easy still.

[Colin]

Drop the attached plugin files into your plugins folder and call the function as follows:

[getremotecontent|definitionid|databasename|databas eserver|databaseuser|databasepassword|databasepref ix|contenttemplate|order|startrecord|numberofresul ts]