I have a discount shopping site www.discounthypermarket.com and i have an admin program that when i add discount codes to the site it also writes directly to the database of a blog site so it also displays the discount codes. Since i am writing directly to the database the ping back to inform other blogs of updates does not work (i think it does not work) is it possible via coding to make the ping back work automatically after updating the database.

Any ideas and help i would be very grateful.

Cheers,

Andrew

Well it reallyd epends a lot on what database you're using for starters, then what coding languages and what software or hosting framework you're using.

For example, if you use Microsoft SQL Server, the database engine itself is able to make HTTP calls, so you could set up a trigger to issue a ping every time the data in the table changed. MySQL I'm almost sure cannot do HTTP, so it would be impossible for the database to notify other web sites directly. You might set the web page that hosts whatever form you use to enter the data to do the pingback on submit.

Thank you for the reply, i am using mysql and php for coding.