Is it possible to continually update an xml file on the server with data from a wordpress page? If so, how could I do it?
I use this plugin http://plugins.elliotcondon.com/advanced-custom-fields/ to create the custom data. Would I be able to save this to an xml file?
It’s important that this xml file is updated every time a new page is created or edited.
The save_post
hook gets called each time a post is created or updated. Just hook into that. There you can do something like fputcsv('/tmp/' . $post_id, $post)
or output to XML/JSON.
== EDIT ==
add_action( 'save_post', 'wp239s5_post_to_xml', 10, 2 );
function wp239s5_post_to_xml( $post_id, $post ) {
if ( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE )
return $post_id;
//convert $post to xml here
}