Re: [DOC-WEB] cvs: docweb /sql users.sql

On Saturday 30 July 2005 19:01, Sean Coates wrote:
> Vincent Gevers wrote:
> > In the future, I think we should fetch the real name (if it's not in the
> > db yet) from master.php.net and store it in our db.
>
> I agree.
> I'd like to avoid page scraping with this, though.
> If we could come up with some authentication method, I'd prefer to RSS
> this.

RSS?

I was thinking about:
master.php.net/fetch/username.php?user=vincent
which will only return "Vincent Gevers"

because that is the only info we need to get.

We could use a token, but we only fetch a real name for a cvs username.

If I'm getting you wrong, please tell me :)

Vincent

> I'll work on something after this weekend, perhaps..
>
> S