wordpress xmlrpc and microsoft access vba

juust | 19/10/2009

I was building a database in Wordpress but their table interface lacks completely and I dont want to spend 200 hours developing a backend for a once-off project.

I always used MsAccess for RAD blueprinting and I reckon you can build a better more flexible interface in 20 hours. With XHR MsAccess has some better internet capabilities these days, a nice simple XMLHttp library.

You can use it for any http rest api in the cloud.

Ajax for Access :) here’s the most basic wordpress xml-rpc call, sayHello.

  1. Sub PutXML()
  2.  
  3. txtURL = "http://www.blog.com/xmlrpc.php"
  4. txtUserName = "user"
  5. txtPassword = "pwd"
  6.  
  7.   Dim objSvrHTTP As ServerXMLHTTP
  8.   Dim strT As String
  9.   Set objSvrHTTP = New ServerXMLHTTP
  10.  
  11.   objSvrHTTP.Open "POST", txtURL, False, CStr(txtUserName), _
  12.    CStr(txtPassword)
  13.  
  14.   objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Accept", "application/xml"
  15.   objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/xml"
  16.  
  17.   strT = ""
  18.   strT = strT & "<methodcall>"
  19.   strT = strT & "<methodname>demo.sayHello</methodname>"
  20.   strT = strT & "</methodcall>"
  21.  
  22.   objSvrHTTP.send strT
  23.  
  24.   MsgBox objSvrHTTP.responseText
  25.  
  26. End Sub

For pre-Vista you need the MSXML 6.0 library from microsoft, in Vista I already had it installed so you can add a reference to the library and off you go.

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