[IMC-Tech] How to get Dada to update cities list?

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mark burdett <mark at indymedia.org> wrote:
> there are supposed to be nightly cron jobs on www.indy which maintain 
> the xml files.  not sure what the status of these is.  but they were 
> running only once a day so it could take a while for changes to show 
> up.  whoever set up the cron jobs should perhaps double check that 
> they're still working.

we should recache them when we update cities.inc ...
> 
> --mark
> 
> On 02 Nov 2004, at 11:47, Bill Huston wrote:
> 
> >
> > As is being discussed on imc-tech, many sites using Dada do not have a
> > current cities list, as is required by the Global IMC policy.
> >
> > I have noticed this, because my IMC is new (Binghamton), and many
> > sites (include ours) do not have Binghamton listed.
> >
> > This seems to be caused by 2 factors.
> >
> > 1: Dada does not use the (standard?) cities.inc file, but instead uses
> >
> >      "citydata.xml"  by  cronjobs/cron.daily/getcitiesinc.php, and
> >      "cities.xml"    by  docs/utilities/citydata.php (which on my site 
> > doesn't run w/o errors)
> >
> > The other half of the problem is that,
> >
> > 2: While "cities.inc" is up to date, neither "citydata.xml" nor 
> > "cities.xml" are
> >    current.
> >
> > So, it seems that if either Dada were patched to use "cities.inc", or
> > if "cities.xml" was made current, this would benefit many sites, 
> > including
> > ours.
> >
> > Can someone help with this?
> >
> > ---------------------
> >
> > Additionally, I have another question:
> >
> > On most sites, the left column which lists
> > other IMCs, the name of the IMC is a link to the
> > IMC itself, like:
> >
> > a)   http://alberta.indymedia.org/
> >
> > On ours ( http://binghamton.indymedia.org ) it's like
> > this:
> >
> > b)   http://www.binghamtonpmc.org/home/city/index.php?city=alberta
> >
> > Can someone help me make my site more like (a)?
> >
> > (This may be a Dada config option, but my hosting company won't give
> > me shell access and did the install themselves)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Huston
> >
> >
> >
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