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This can be done via a ping service from Google Webmaster Tools
Add the following PHP function
function submitSitemap($site)
{
$url = 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap='.htmlentities($site.'/sitemap.xml');
$response = file_get_contents($url);
if($response){
echo $response;
}else{
echo "Failed to submit sitemap";
}
}
Now you need to call the above function as example below to submit your sitemap to Google.
submitSitemap('http://www.mysite.com'); //Replace http://www.mysite.com with your website
Once the sitemap has been submitted the following message will be returned
Sitemap Notification Received
Your Sitemap has been successfully added to our list of Sitemaps to crawl. If this is the first time you are notifying Google about this Sitemap, please add it via http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ so you can track its status. Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.