Releasing xkcd-mailer to the world

README

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+# xkcd-Mailer #
+
+Takes the first/latest item from the xkcd atom-feed and mails the image and punchline to a specified email address.
+
+## crontab example ##
+
+5 minutes over 7am on monday, wednesday and friday.
+    
+    5 7 * * 1,3,5 /usr/bin/php /home/users/viir/code/php/xkcd-mailer.php
+

xkcd-mailer.php

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+<?php
+    /**
+     * xkcd-Mailer
+     *
+     * Sends HTML-email containing hotlinked latest xkcd
+     * strip with alt/title-text underneath the image.
+     *
+     * @author Ismo Vuorinen
+     * @version $Id$
+     * @license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php The MIT License
+     * @copyright 23 August, 2010
+     * @package default
+     **/
+    
+    // Your timezone, PHP5 required.
+    date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Helsinki");
+    
+    // Your destination
+    $mail = "ivuorinen@gmail.com";
+    $from = "xkcd mailer <xkcdmailer@example.com>";
+
+    $feed = "http://xkcd.com/atom.xml";
+    $data = simplexml_load_file($feed);
+    $item = $data->entry[0];
+    $date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($item->updated));
+    preg_match("#title=\"(.+)\"#iU", $item->summary, $t);
+
+    // To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
+    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
+    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
+    $headers .= 'From: '. $from . "\r\n";
+
+    $subject    = "xkcd {$date}: {$item->title}";
+    $punchline  = $t[1];
+
+    $msg = "<h1><a href=\"{$item->id}\">{$item->title}</a></h1>\n"
+        . "<small>Posted {$date}</small><br />\n"
+        . $item->summary."<br />\n"
+        . "<p>{$punchline}</p>\n";
+
+    mail($mail, $subject, $msg, $headers);