In order to build a successful blog network I need xml-rpc. I read up on xml-rpc, incutio ixr and tried some basic flat file xml rpc. It’s either that or a custom php url to post data to and then use the wordpress functions to process it.
Xml-rpc is a lot easier especially with the WordPress Incutio-IXR class:
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include_once('wp-includes/class-IXR.php');
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//just give us your endpoint and we'll take it from there Sparky…
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$client = new IXR_Client('http://tryout.blacknorati.com/xmlrpc.php');
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// xml rpc post function form :
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// metaWeblog.newPost( blog_id, username, password, struct, publish )
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//struct = structure for post data
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$post['title'] = 'test titel';
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$post['description'] = 'test';
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$post['categories'] = array("frontpage");
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//use 'query' to interact with the server, set publish to 0 (draft) for now
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if (!$client->query('metaWeblog.newPost', 6, 'user', 'password', $post, 0)) {
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die('Something went wrong – '.$client->getErrorCode().' : '.$client->getErrorMessage());
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}
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echo $client->getResponse();
Normally getResponse will return a PostID for this function.
Is it really that simple ? Yes. I skipped to the IXR_Client because my host does not have xmlrpc running and the IXR_class doesn’t use it, and solutions with email don’t easily allow access to tags and categories.
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$post['categories'] = array("frontpage");
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$post['mt_keywords']='key1, key2';
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$post["mt_allow_comments"] ='closed';
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$post['mt_allow_pings']='open';
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//$post['mt_tb_ping_urls'] ='url url url';
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//$post['enclosure']=array('url', 'length', 'type')';
mt_keywords holds my tags, that’s a bit more flexible than categories. For my blogs the comments are closed (mt_allow_comments), mt_allow_pings is open, and the real tasty bit is the trackbacks (mt_tb_ping_urls : simply urls separated with a blank space, just like in the wordpress form). I played with the Arrousi trackback class, that one has an autodiscover routine, so I can try and fetch a trackback url from the content page I am ‘using’.
I don’t work with enclosures, but to be complete I added it here.
That covers most data I want to send around a blog network. Very nice class, Incutio IXR.
Next week : more nonsense.
