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#1: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:31 am
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*** MetaWeblog support is now part of the default Pivot installation - read more in the docs. ***

Here is a preliminary PHP script that lets you post to pivot from metaWeblog-compatible applications (I use ecto, but there are several others).

If you want to try it out, download the script from http://www.rocksandpaper.com/metaweblog.zip, then drop the metaweblog.php file in your /pivot folder.

Once you've done that, you can point your blogging app at the new file (with a category name as your "Blog ID") and post away. It also works with Flickr's blogging system.

This file is modified from myPhpBlog's api.php, so it's GPL-licensed.

Let me know if it works (or doesn't work) for you...

Edited by hansfn - added top text (in bold/centered).

#2: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Tenshi, Location: Enschede, The Netherlands

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:21 am
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I tried your script with Flickr's blogging functionality and it seems to work great! Except for one small thing... my frontpage isn't rebuild, after the entry is posted.
The entry shows up okay in the entries overview.

It seems the frontpage is actually rebuild but too early, just before the entry is added to the db. Cause when I do another post from Flickr, the previous entry does show up on the frontpage, but the new one does not.

#3: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Bob (too lazy to log in),

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:05 am
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Making pivot rebuild the frontpage isn't too hard.. I'm at my parents'house right now, so i don't have easy access to the code, but if you want to know how to make it rebuild, lit should be sufficient to call

buildfrontpage_function();

(if it doesn't work that easily, i'll take a closer look Smile

)

#4: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: madjo, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:18 am
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Tenshi wrote:

I tried your script with Flickr's blogging functionality and it seems to work great! Except for one small thing... my frontpage isn't rebuild, after the entry is posted.
The entry shows up okay in the entries overview.

It seems the frontpage is actually rebuild but too early, just before the entry is added to the db. Cause when I do another post from Flickr, the previous entry does show up on the frontpage, but the new one does not.

it might be that this is a bug in pivot, because I have to rebuild the frontpage after I created a new post, otherwise it would not turn up on the frontpage...

#5: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:19 pm
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I'll have to try Bob's suggestion. Right now it uses this to rebuild (which I'm sure I copied from somewhere in the Pivot code):

Code:

$overview_arr = $db->getlist(-4,0,"","", FALSE);
$VerboseGenerate = FALSE;
foreach ($overview_arr as $entry) {
generate_pages($entry['code'], TRUE, TRUE, TRUE, FALSE);
}

I'll try Bob's buildfrontpage_function() and see if that works better. (Although I haven't personally had this problem)

#6: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:37 pm
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buildfrontpage_function() does rebuild the front page properly, but it breaks the XML response.

It writes this to the beginning of the output:

Code:

Response:
Write: ../archives/archive_2005-w14.php 
Write: ../index.php 
Write: ../rss.xml 
Write: ../atom.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>

It actually DOES rebuild the page properly, but Flickr (or other app) will always say it failed Smile

#7: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Bob, Location: At Home

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:54 am
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buildfrontpage_function() probably writes output to the 'browser', which you do not want.

It's not the tidiest way to do it, but you can solve this by wrapping it like this:

Code:

ob_start();
buildfrontpage_function();
ob_end_clean();

#8: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Bob, Location: At Home

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:45 pm
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I've been testing a bit with w.bloggar to see how it works, and posting works fine, but it complains when i try to get a list of the latest posts..

Could this be an issue with w.bloggar, or of me setting it up incorrectly? (i'm using metaWeblog Api instead of blogger api.. that's correct, right?)

#9: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Bob, Location: At Home

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:33 pm
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I've come a bit farther.. I set it up here: http://mijnkopthee.nl/pivot/metaweblog.php. Using Ecto, one category works:

http://mijnkopthee.nl/images/ecto_ok.gif

and one doesn't:

http://mijnkopthee.nl/images/ecto_notok.gif

As ecto suggests, There's probably something wrong with the encoding of the xml response. Is there a way I could check the raw xml metaweblog.php returns?

#10: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: stefanbucher, Location: Switzerland

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:13 pm
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I just came by to see what the Pivot forum will tell me about using ecto and was surprised to see this recent discussion.

I think it's great to make Pivot work with a desktop application like ecto by means of metaweblog.php.

But: Can I be sure that ecto won't do any harm to my Pivot installation and settings on my webserver?

And: Which one is the latest development of metaweblog.php now?

Thank you for the good work.

#11: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:24 pm
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Sorry for taking so long to reply. I've been away from my computer most of the weekend.

Bob:

I think Ecto has a "Console" option somewhere that will show you the XML -- maybe on the "tools" menu? I'll have to look when I get back to my own PC.

stefanbucher: metaweblog.php doesn't change any pivot settings, so it won't hurt your pivot installation. I always keep the latest version at http://www.rocksandpaper.com/metaweblog.zip

-----

The errors with the recent post listings seem to be related to problems with the UTF8 encoding. I suspect that the errors happen when it tries to get posts with certain non-english characters. Can somebody who is having trouble tell me if the new version fixes the problem?

For the problems with page-rebuilding, I'm not sure why that's happening yet. The page-rebuilding code that I'm using is actually copied directly from buildfrontpage_function(), but for some reason it isn't always "seeing" the new one. Is there some kind of delay between writing an entry and being able to read it?

[Update: OK, I think I found the problem w/ page rebuilding -- I need to be using the generate_pages($id) function (this seems to be what pivot does when you create an entry from the control panel) Should be fixed now.]

#12: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Bob, Location: At Home

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:14 am
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Nope, this version of the metaweblog script doesn't fix it yet.

w.bloggar gives another error on almost every action i do: "The categoy functions aren't supported. Specify your category under Blog ID".

I haven't the foggiest idea what that means. Smile

Also, my ecto (1.6, the latest one for windows i believe), doesn't seem to have a console. Hmmm

#13: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: timsamoff, Location: Kansas City, MO USA

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:33 am
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I've installed Metaweblog.php, but I am getting an error when I try to set up my Flickr blog:

Flickr wrote:

The endpoint you entered was not correct.

I'm entering my info in the MetaWeblogAPI section, but I've also tried a couple of the other API choices.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!
Tim

#14: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:01 pm
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timsamoff wrote:

I've installed Metaweblog.php, but I am getting an error when I try to set up my Flickr blog:

Flickr wrote:

The endpoint you entered was not correct.

I'm entering my info in the MetaWeblogAPI section, but I've also tried a couple of the other API choices.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!
Tim

What are you entering as your endpoint?

#15: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: timsamoff, Location: Kansas City, MO USA

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:17 pm
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I pointed to where I put the metaweblog file (and where the ReadMe says to):
http://www.sense-datum.org/pivot/metaweblog.php

-T.

#16: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:53 pm
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timsamoff wrote:

I pointed to where I put the metaweblog file (and where the ReadMe says to):
http://www.sense-datum.org/pivot/metaweblog.php

-T.

Hmmm...

But it looks like your pivot folder is at http://www.sense-datum.org/tim/pivot/, so you would need to point flickr to http://www.sense-datum.org/tim/pivot/metaweblog.php

#17: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: timsamoff, Location: Kansas City, MO USA

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:58 pm
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Right... That's what I meant -- I mistyped... I mean, I think I know where my Pivot directory is. Thumbs Up

I'll try again just to make sure that's not what I did in Flickr.

-T.

#18: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:19 pm
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Bob wrote:

Nope, this version of the metaweblog script doesn't fix it yet.

w.bloggar gives another error on almost every action i do: "The categoy functions aren't supported. Specify your category under Blog ID".

I haven't the foggiest idea what that means. Smile

Also, my ecto (1.6, the latest one for windows i believe), doesn't seem to have a console. Hmmm

The category thing came from an error in the getCategory function. Apparently w.bloggar is a little less forgiving than ecto Smile

. I've got a new version up which shouldn't have that problem.

Also, to help debug, I've added http://www.rocksandpaper.com/metaweblog_logging.zip which writes all of its output to a file xmlrpc_log.txt. (Be warned that the log file can get pretty big)

#19: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: timsamoff, Location: Kansas City, MO USA

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:27 pm
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I double-checked my URL and I did, indeed type it wrong in Flickr -- boy, am I swift today! Embarassed

Maybe I should just throw in the towel for the day!

-T.

P.S. I wonder if there would be a way to strip the tags out of the Flickr posts...

#20: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Bob, Location: At Home

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:29 pm
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And another step further: I'm getting less errors now, but i can still only fetch entries from 'linkdump', not from 'standard'.

I've been testing with the logfile open, and as far as i can tell, it doesn't return _faulty_ xml, it just doesn't return _anything_. No new entry in the logfile, at least.

Does that ring a bell, or should i try digging deeper?

Also: I'm assuming you wouldn't object if i included your work in pivot 1.30, after it's a bit more fleshed out, won't you.. Of course you'll be credited where appropriate..

#21: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:09 pm
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Quote:

I've been testing with the logfile open, and as far as i can tell, it doesn't return _faulty_ xml, it just doesn't return _anything_. No new entry in the logfile, at least.

That's usually the result of a PHP error. Basically it quits and throws back a PHP error message instead of an XML response. Since the error exits the script, it never gets to the point where it logs the response.

~~I'll look into sending PHP errors to the log file.~~ [Update: PHP doesn't seem to have a reliable mechanism for handling fatal errors. They should, however, show up in your server's error logs]

And if it ever gets to the point where it is working properly, feel free to use it. That's what the GPL is for. Smile

#22: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Bakkel, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:32 am
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For the record!!

I've put up the php file and tried to post a testfile from flickr and got an error. The post is made in pivot, but it isn't rebuilding the frontpage.

Also using w.bloggar the posting is made, but it fails rebuilding the frontpage!

#23: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:37 pm
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Bakkel wrote:

For the record!!

I've put up the php file and tried to post a testfile from flickr and got an error. The post is made in pivot, but it isn't rebuilding the frontpage.

Also using w.bloggar the posting is made, but it fails rebuilding the frontpage!

Several people are having that problem. It's a little bit difficult for me to fix because I can't reproduce it -- my front pages rebuild with no problem (in flickr, ecto, and w.bloggar).

I've tried (so far) three different ways of rebuilding front pages (all using existing pivot functions), and the people who were having problems before are still having problems. I'll look into it again when I get some free time.

Also, does flickr actually report the error, or does it report success and then not show up? (If you're actually getting error messages, can you check your server's error logs and let me know what the actual PHP errors are?)

#24: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: digits, Location: Överkalix, Sweden

Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 4:07 pm
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a quick note from me...
works with w.bloggar out of the box on my domain...

only one snag, this due to the pivot style implementation of categories in pivot, so that instead of choosing which weblog to publish too, you put the category there... pivot is a bit fussy on the category bit

#25: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: madjo, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 4:12 pm
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well it is quite understandable.. you can't choose to which weblog you want to post an entry, but you can choose in which categories that entry goes... Wink

#26: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: digits, Location: Överkalix, Sweden

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 7:22 am
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on the contrary, i can it treats each category as a weblog... so i choose weblog instead of category...
i'm at work now, but i can put up some screenshots when i get home...

#27: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: madjo, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 9:18 am
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what I said applied to Pivot, not to any desktop app Wink

#28: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Fredrik, Location: Wexio Limbo, Sweden

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:15 pm
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I try to add http://blog.adolvsson.com/pivot/metaweblog.php to my flickr, but all I get is "The username and password you entered do not have any weblogs associated with them." I have checked, double-cheched and re-checked. Username and password is correct. Is there anything else I might have forgotten? Do I need to do something in Pivot?

#29: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: madjo, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:14 pm
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does the user have access to the category that script wants to add an entry to?
does that category even exist?

#30: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Fredrik, Location: Wexio Limbo, Sweden

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:56 pm
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madjo wrote:

does the user have access to the category that script wants to add an entry to?

Well, the user is the only user and has access to all categories, so that shouldn't be a problem.

madjo wrote:

does that category even exist?

I actually don't come that far, since I can't even set up my blog in flickr.

#31: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: madjo, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:35 am
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well, I'm not sure how flickr works, or what it does... can you select a category in that program?

#32: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Fredrik, Location: Wexio Limbo, Sweden

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:42 am
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madjo wrote:

well, I'm not sure how flickr works, or what it does... can you select a category in that program?

Not program as much as service, and since it has been discussed here before I know it should work. Which is quite the annoying bit here. I don't know for sure if you're able to select category, I haven't gotten that far, but I think so.

Flickr is a cool online application for managing and sharing photos, and one of the things you can do is blog the pictures you upload (or other peoples public pictures, for that mantter). That's what I'm trying to set up to do.

#33: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: madjo, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:28 am
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well, I'm going to assume that Flickr places those photos in certain categories, and tries to post them to the same categories, and if those don't exist, the user indeed can't post it...

#34: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Fredrik, Location: Wexio Limbo, Sweden

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:00 am
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madjo wrote:

well, I'm going to assume that Flickr places those photos in certain categories, and tries to post them to the same categories, and if those don't exist, the user indeed can't post it...

Where you add your weblog, there's nothing about categories. All you can fill in is the adress to your API endoint, your username and your password. Which I have done, as far as I know correctly, but nothing. Unless, of course, I should add something to some of those.

Anyone who has gotten it to work with flickr that can perhaps guide me through or give a hint?

Using w.bloggar works like fine, though, so it doesn't seem like the problem is with my pivot installation.

#35: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:17 am
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After you enter your API endpoint, Flickr should give a list of categories that you can post in, and you get to choose one.

#36: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Fredrik, Location: Wexio Limbo, Sweden

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:33 am
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mngeoff wrote:

After you enter your API endpoint, Flickr should give a list of categories that you can post in, and you get to choose one.

Yeah, that's what I thought. And that is what's not happening.

This is getting more and more frustrating with every silly little thing I try.

#37: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Fredrik, Location: Wexio Limbo, Sweden

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:57 am
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You know, I could become a certified nutcase for less. I tried again today, adding my blog to flickr, and it worked. Without me doing anything new. It's crazy, I tell you, crazy.

My computer has been getting a habbit of freezing up lately. Maybe the last crash did some good, like getting rid of an evil cookie monster or something like that. Maybe.

I'm glad it worked, but for once it would be nice to know why it works. Ah well, as the song goes: Don't worry, be happy.

#38: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:30 am
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Fredrik wrote:

You know, I could become a certified nutcase for less. I tried again today, adding my blog to flickr, and it worked. Without me doing anything new. It's crazy, I tell you, crazy.

My computer has been getting a habbit of freezing up lately. Maybe the last crash did some good, like getting rid of an evil cookie monster or something like that. Maybe.

I'm glad it worked, but for once it would be nice to know why it works. Ah well, as the song goes: Don't worry, be happy.

One thing to keep in mind about Flickr is that they are still a beta service, and their software changes pretty regularly. The problems you were having were just as likely to be problems with Flickr as problems with Pivot.

#39: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Tenshi, Location: Enschede, The Netherlands

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:07 am
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Is it correct that after installing the XML/RPC patch this 'extension' doesn't work anymore?! Confused

#40: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: mngeoff,

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:36 am
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Yes, the new XML/RPC version breaks the metaweblog extension.

To fix it, make these changes to metaweblog.php:
--change all calls to piv_xmlrpc_encode to php_xmlrpc_encode
--change all calls to piv_xmlrpc_decode to php_xmlrpc_decode

Make sure you install the XML RPC patch before you change metaweblog.php. The modified version won't work with the old xmlrpc.inc.

I'll try to get the modified version uploaded tomorrow.

#41: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Tenshi, Location: Enschede, The Netherlands

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:22 am
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Thanks, works again! Very Happy

#42: Looks strange Author: catarina76, Location: Karlstad, Sweden

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:12 am
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Hi!
My very first post in the forum by the way Smile

I'm having some problems with posting my pictures from Flickr to my blog when I use the script here.
Everything worked out and I got it working just fine...there's just one annoying thing!

When published to my blog, it does not show swedish letters as it should (see examle http://blog.skutta.se/pivot/entry.php?id=9).
Is this a flickr problem or a pivot thing? Can someone help me whith this please?

/Catarina

#43: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Marti, Location: NL

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:26 pm
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I must be stupid - but I can't add a Flickr - weblog. Can't even get passed the first screen; all I get (@ http://www.flickr.com/blogs_add_metaweblogapi.gne) is
"The endpoint you entered was not correct."

I've tried these endpoints:
http://www.potverdikkie.nl/pivot/metaweblog.php
www.potverdikkie.nl/pivot/metaweblog.php
http://potverdikkie.nl/pivot/metaweblog.php

The script is located @ /pivot, what am I doing wrong here? I'll try getting some sleep now but I'm afraid a kip isn't going to be enough to fix this ...

Help! Wink

Thanx in advance!

#44: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Marti, Location: NL

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:46 am
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I've had a reply from the Flickr-folks; they think it's a Pivot-problem.
I somehow doubt that Smile

Can anybody help me out? Thx!

#45: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Tenshi, Location: Enschede, The Netherlands

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:51 am
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mngeoff wrote:

Yes, the new XML/RPC version breaks the metaweblog extension.

To fix it, make these changes to metaweblog.php:
--change all calls to piv_xmlrpc_encode to php_xmlrpc_encode
--change all calls to piv_xmlrpc_decode to php_xmlrpc_decode

Make sure you install the XML RPC patch before you change metaweblog.php. The modified version won't work with the old xmlrpc.inc.

I'll try to get the modified version uploaded tomorrow.

Did you apply the above patch including editing the metaweblog.php file?

#46: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Guest,

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:04 am
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Ah - no I didn't, didn't read it all that wel: I saw "I'll try to get the modified version uploaded tomorrow." (posted a while ago), so I thought it was allready fixed.

I'll make the changes in metaweblogscript, do I have to download (install) a patch as well?

Thx for your help! I'll be away for one week but I'm back to work on this as soon as I get back!

#47: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: Tenshi, Location: Enschede, The Netherlands

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:19 am
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First install the XML/RPC patch from the pivot team, see the www.pivotlog.net and scroll down a bit. And then edit your metaweblog.php file.

#48: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: neezee, Location: Marcipan-City (Lübeck), Germany

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:20 pm
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As I finally get ecto to work (*narf*) I do get this response on one of the latest installs of Pivot, updated XML patch and changed as post above stated

Using ecto 1.7.7

---------------------------
Fehler
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Response from server does not contain valid XML.
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OK
---------------------------

any ideas? URL for metaweblog is
http://einfach-pragmatisch.de/pivot/metaweblog.php

#49: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: catarina76, Location: Karlstad, Sweden

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:57 pm
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I posted earlier about my problems whith swedish characters when posting from Flickr.

I thought I'd figured it out and that it was an encoding problem. It seems that Flickr uses UTF-8 and I didn't.
But after changing and converting my entries to UTF-8 it still doesn't work. I get question marks in my Pivot-blog instead of swedish å ä and ö, when posting from Flickr.

What do you think, Flickr or Pivot?

#50: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:20 am
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catarina76 - I guess it's neither. If you have switched language as described in my latest post in the UTF-8 thread, Pivot should be fine. I don't think a high-profile thing like Flickr is wrong.

This is most likely a server issue. First check what encoding your browser is using - I guess you'll find that it still uses ISO-8859-1. This is because most Apache webserver has this as the default charset - adding "AddDefaultCharset Off" to your .htaccess file might fix it, it did for me.

PS! It would have been a million times easier to help if we could test/see your blog...

#51: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: catarina76, Location: Karlstad, Sweden

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:08 am
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hansfn wrote:

catarina76 - I guess it's neither. If you have switched language as described in my latest post in the UTF-8 thread, Pivot should be fine. I don't think a high-profile thing like Flickr is wrong.

You have a point there.

Quote:

This is most likely a server issue. First check what encoding your browser is using - I guess you'll find that it still uses ISO-8859-1. This is because most Apache webserver has this as the default charset - adding "AddDefaultCharset Off" to your .htaccess file might fix it, it did for me.

I'm not sure how to check my browser for that (firefox mainly). After rebuilding my entries with your script, it has no problem showing things correctly, except when posted from Flickr. I checked in IE now and there it looks even worse.
I tried adding that to my .htaccess file with no result. But I'm not sure if I did it correctly of course. I'm no pro at this at all.

Quote:

PS! It would have been a million times easier to help if we could test/see your blog...

Oh, I didn't post at link to my blog in my message because I have one in my profile. Sorry! Link to my blog

#52: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:26 am
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OK, your blog uses UTF-8 - no problem there. (I'm glad the conversion worked - do you mind posting that fact in the UTF-8 thread?)

I have two more suggestions:
1) The Pivot user that you use for the metaweblog, still don't use UTF-8 as charset.
2) The charset is undefined (and hence defaults to IS0-8859-1) in metaweblog.php.

#53: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: catarina76, Location: Karlstad, Sweden

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:57 am
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hansfn wrote:

I have two more suggestions:
1) The Pivot user that you use for the metaweblog, still don't use UTF-8 as charset.
2) The charset is undefined (and hence defaults to IS0-8859-1) in metaweblog.php.

1) Thats not it. I made sure to change to UTF-8 in every place I could think of and rechecked. I checked again now and the user I use for the metaweblog is set to UTF-8.

2) Maybe, but I have no way of checking this for myself. Php could just as well be written in chinese when you ask me unfortunately Confused

My metaweblog.php file looks like this, if thats any help?

And sure, I'll post about my success with your script Smile

#54: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:35 pm
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OK, I have just checked and the latest metaweblog.php has two errors (related to changes in xmlrpc). I'll commit the fixed code to SVN (so it works in the next beta) on Monday. If you can't wait until the next beta, download the code from
http://home.himolde.no/~nordhaug/development/pivot/metaweblog.zip
I tested it with Flock and it worked.

#55: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: madjo, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:03 pm
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nice one Hans!

#56: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:46 am
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I have something even nicer - auto discovery / detection of the metaweblog API in tools like Flock. In the file modules/module_snippets.php add

Code:

function snippet_blogapi_autodiscovery() {
global $Weblogs, $Current_weblog, $Paths;

$filname = basename($Weblogs[$Current_weblog]['front_filename'],'.php');
$filename = $Weblogs[$Current_weblog]['rss_path'].'rsd-'.$filname.'.xml';
$rsdfilename = fixpath($Paths['pivot_dir'].$filename);
$rsdurl = fixpath($Paths['pivot_url'].$filename);
// Some desktop blogging tools (Flock at least) needs to know the host explicitly...
$rsdurl = $Paths['host'].$rsdurl;
$blogurl = $Paths['host'].snippet_home();
$blogapiurl = $Paths['host'].$Paths['pivot_url'].'metaweblog.php';
$output = '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rsd version="1.0" xmlns="http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/rsd">
<service>
<engineName>Pivot</engineName>
<engineLink>http://pivotlog.net/</engineLink>
<homePageLink>'.$blogurl.'</homePageLink>
<apis>
<api name="MetaWeblog" preferred="true"
apiLink="'.$blogapiurl.'"
blogID="'.$blogurl.'"/>
</apis>
</service>
</rsd>';

write_file($filename, $output);

$output = '<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="'.$rsdurl.'">';

return $output;
}

Then add "[[blogapi_autodiscovery]]" together with " [[rss_autodiscovery]]" in the frontpage template. Finally in Flock when blogging you can just give the URL to the frontpage of your blog and all settings are discovered/detected automatically. I have tested with Flock and it work like a charm. If someone wants to test with other blog tools (like Fickr), I would be very happy.

This is checked in our SVN and will be part of the next beta.

#57: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:12 am
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Just some more info. Someone requested support for trackbacks in Metaweblog. This isn't defined in the API. It *can* be added through namespace and so on, but noone really does it. Maybe someone wants to write an Atom API which is supposed to be much better?

Some references:
RFC: MetaWeblog API
RFC: Support for other namespaces in MetaWeblog API
The Atom API (about the problems with Blogger and Metaweblog API)

#58: Posting from Writely.com with API Author: morpurgo.nl, Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 7:42 am
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Hi all,

I have used w.blogger and thats a nice tool but i wanted to blog from where ever i am without having to login in Pivot. I played with Writely and i made a post to my blog true you metaweblog API but i cant select the default category. If i post it takes, i think, the first one om alphabetic order so with the A.

Does anyone knows how to solve this problem?

#59: Re: Posting from Writely.com with API Author: morpurgo.nl, Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:52 am
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morpurgo.nl wrote:

Hi all,

I have used w.blogger and thats a nice tool but i wanted to blog from where ever i am without having to login in Pivot. I played with Writely and i made a post to my blog true you metaweblog API but i cant select the default category. If i post it takes, i think, the first one om alphabetic order so with the A.

Does anyone knows how to solve this problem?

Ha found it myself!

Here is how it works:

And here the final entry:
http://www.morpurgo.nl/pivot/entry.php?id=787

Last edited by morpurgo.nl on Sun Jan 22, 2006 7:49 am; edited 1 time in total

#60: performancing blog tool Author: morpurgo.nl, Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:30 pm
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This API works also great with performancing 1.1 straight from the Firefox extension.

http://performancing.com/

http://performancing.com/firefox/

#61: metaweblog.php Author: useeliger,

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:14 am
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Where can I get metaweblog.php? The mentioned URL is no longer valid.

#62: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: useeliger,

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:47 am
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I have found it - sorry

#63: cannot post with metaweblog Author: b83s,

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:37 am
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Hello,

I am trying to use the metaweblog functionality but it is not working for me. I did see somebody got it working with the performancing (i am using that).

I can add the weblog and select the default weblog but i can't post. The posts are not even showing in the entrie overview.

i downloaded pivot 3 day ago, so its version 1.30.

Does somebody has an idea?

Thanks

#64: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:16 am
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What is the error message? Have you read http://pivotlog.net/docs/doku.php?id=metaweblog_functionality In particular:

Quote:

If your client asks for a “Blog ID” (or “Site ID”), enter a case-sensitive category name.

#65: Ecto problems Author: Mickey98, Location: NL

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:08 pm
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I can setup Ecto according to the posts, the console even retreives the categories but when I try to refresh these categories the following error-message:

Could it be a problem related to this post:
http://forum.pivotlog.net/viewtopic.php?t=10352&highlight=

#66: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:47 pm
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Mickey, the reference now is the docs - http://pivotlog.net/docs/doku.php?id=metaweblog_functionality - not the posts in this thread. Anyway, that will probably not change anything for you. And, no, this problem is not related to the RSS problem you reported.

Just to get it straight:
1) You can post from Ecto, right?
2) It's only the refreshing of categories that fails?

#67: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:58 pm
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Unrelated to Mickey's problems above, I have created a new much, much improved version of metaweblog.php - get it from http://home.himolde.no/~nordhaug/development/pivot/metaweblog-19082006.zip

Highlights:

Reported categories in your blog app is correct - you can now post to multiple categories.
Reported weblogs in your blog app is correct - no longer misusing it for categories.
If your blog app doesn't send category info, the first allowed category (if any) in the weblog will be used.
Dates are correct (for example in the list of recent posts if your blog app supports that)
Username/password check is now always correct.
Proper documented source code (but normal users don't care much about this).

I have fixed most of the Notes/Known Issues on http://pivotlog.net/docs/doku.php?id=metaweblog_functionality When you have tested the new version and we have fixed any issues, I'll fix

Quote:

Administrative “superusers” can only edit their own posts.

and support for image upload (!) through the newMediaObject function in the MetaWeblog API.

I have tested some myself:
1) Ecto - everything works.
2) Performancing - everything works
3) Windows Live Writer - everything works, except get ting the categories. (There are many error messages, but things seems to work.)

NB! To use the new metaweblog.php, you must add

Code:

/**
* Finds which cats are published by a certain blog.
*
* @param string $weblog
* @return array
*/
function find_cats_in_weblog($weblog) {
global $Weblogs;
$cats = array();
foreach ($Weblogs[$weblog]['sub_weblog'] as $subweblog) {
foreach ($subweblog['categories'] as $subweblogcat) {
if (in_array($subweblogcat,$cats)) continue;
$cats[] = $subweblogcat;
}
}
return $cats;
}

in pvlib.php for example right after the find_weblogs_with_cat function.

Please test so I can commit the work - to be included in Pivot 1.31

#68: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:28 pm
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Quote:

Please test so I can commit the work - to be included in Pivot 1.31

Thanks, I can now use flock, I could not with the previous version.
I don't see errors with Performancing either (I did before).

I can't use textMate http://macromates.com blogging bundle but I do not know enough to figure out what is going on.
[/quote]

#69: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:27 am
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I'm glad it worked better for you, John.

I'm happy to announce that Pivot's metaweblog API now supports image upload - I have implemented metaWeblog.newMediaObject. Get the new version from http://home.himolde.no/~nordhaug/development/pivot/metaweblog-21082006.zip

In addition to the additions to pvlib.php I mentioned above, you must do two one-line changes:

Code:

-function write_file($filename, $output) {
+function write_file($filename, $output, $mode='w') {

- if ($fh = @fopen( $filename, 'w' )) {
+ if ($fh = @fopen( $filename, $mode)) {

in the function write_file - read the code above as: Replace line "-" with line "+". Easy?

I have tested with Ecto and Windows Live Writer and image upload/inserting in posts works flawlessly. Please test with any other blog clients that might support newMediaObject.

#70: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: neezee, Location: Marcipan-City (Lübeck), Germany

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:12 pm
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very very VERY cool.

Pivots lack of being able to be used by these tools really drove me nuts for a long time and now even being able to possible load up images with it - wonderful.

Thanks you very much for this. I really did not want to go away from Pivot but this had become an issue for me while at the same time I do lack the knowledge of making it work myself. Sad

Going updating the software now Wink

)))

#71: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:20 pm
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hansfn wrote:

Please test with any other blog clients that might support newMediaObject.

Ecto for mac works fine:
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/pivot/entry.php?id=844&w=john_johnston

I've been messing around with appleScript too, posting and retrieving work fine, but I've a problem uploading.
The image gets uploaded but it doesn't display properly eg:
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/images/testimage.jpeg

I am encoding with this appleScript:

Code:

on encodeAsBase64(theFilePath)
set thePath to quoted form of POSIX path of (theFilePath)
set theScript to "openssl base64 < " & thePath
return do shell script theScript as data
end encodeAsBase64

Which I borrowed from:
http://www.theotherblog.com/Articles/2006/04/26/applescript-base64-and-xmlrpc-newmediaobject/#comments

but the rest of my appleScript might be way off base.

I can upload an image with the TextMate blogging bundle, but cant post an entry. I get an error:
user Admin does not have any access to any category in blog 0
or something like that.

Anyway many thanks for the improvements.

#72: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:10 pm
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So you are creating your own blog "app" written in appleScript? Nice. However, I don't know appleScript - never had a Mac - so i can't help. It for sure looks as you are sending the filename instead of the contents of the file named filename...

As you understand, I haven't been able to test TextMate because it's a Mac app. What data is stored in TextMate's blog accounts (or whatever they call it) - I'm thinking about blog ID in particular. Did TextMate use this data - http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/rsd-johnjohnston.xml? The interesting part is why TextMate reports blog "0" - when the correct blog id is "john_johnston" ...

#73: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:41 am
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Hi hansfn,
Thanks for the ideas, I'll dig around and try to work it out.
long term I am thinking of automating various posts with appleScript, just playing at the moment. I'll post some basic scripts for others to use sometime.
textMate does not seem to send a blog id. I can't see where to enter it.
FWIW the blogging bundle is the creation of Brad Choate and at the moment does not handle blog id
I guess the TextMate blog is the place to ask questions.
Thanks again

#74: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:03 am
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John wrote:

textMate does not seem to send a blog id.

If so, that explains things. textMate should send a blog id - ref http://www.sixapart.com/developers/xmlrpc/metaweblog_api/metaweblognewpost.html I don't feel like working around such a basic bug, but it sounds like you'll contact the textMate folks - great.

#75: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:09 pm
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Hi hansfn,
I've commented on the TextMate blog, hopefully I get some info.

The images I am uploading with appleScript now seem to stay encoded.
If I download them and decode them I get the image.

EG downloading this in the terminal with curl:
http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/images/testimage.jpeg
and then:
openssl base64 -d -in testimage.jpg > decode.jpg
I get my image.
Is there some sorts of encoded files that php doesn't encode, or is there a version of php that doesn't decode? Or does anyone know of a better waty to encode than:
openssl base64 -in pathoffile
On a mac.
(I am kind of way over my head now) Wink

#76: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:37 am
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There is an undocumented feature in the API, I haven't found it anywhere, but all/many blog apps use:

When you send the newMedia.newMediaObject, you have to use

Code:

...<member><name>bits</name><value><base64>base64_encode_filecontents</base64></value></member> ...

You have probably have forgotten"<base64>...</base64>". It make sense doesn't it, to tell what encoding the bits have?

Added: Or used the "string" in stead of "base64"

#77: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:09 pm
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hansfn wrote:

You have probably have forgotten"<base64>...</base64>". It make sense doesn't it, to tell what encoding the bits have?

Added: Or used the "string" in stead of "base64"

Still struggling with AppleScript, from extensive googling I am not sure that anyone has got this working. For my own use I guess I could post from appleScript and upload via ftp (scripted by applescript)
But I have figured out TextMate It gets the blog id from the endpoint, so I point it to:
http://pathtometaweblog.php#john_johnston where john_johnston is my blog id.

Thanks again for all the help and information.

#78: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:06 pm
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Another tip: Add some debugging to includes/xmlrpc/xmlrpcs.inc so you see what Pivot (metaweblog.php) gets and sends. Before

Code:

// Echo back what we received, before parsing it
if($this->debug > 1)
{
$this->debugmsg("+++GOT+++\n" . $data . "\n+++END+++");
}

add

Code:

debug("+++GOT+++\n" . htmlspecialchars($data) . "\n+++END+++");

and after

Code:

$payload = $payload . $r->serialize($resp_charset);

add

Code:

debug("+++SENT+++\n" . htmlspecialchars($payload) . "\n+++END+++");

Both changes in the function service.

After this turn on debugging (Admin->Config) and open the debug window - see top bar to the right.

#79: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:03 am
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hansfn wrote:

Another tip: Add some debugging to includes/xmlrpc/xmlrpcs.inc so you see what Pivot (metaweblog.php) gets and sends.

Thanks hansfn,
Here is what I got when trying to post an image with AppleScript:

Code:

<param>
<value>
<struct>
<member>
<name>name</name>
<value>
<string>mytestimage.jpeg</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>type</name>
<value>
<string>image/jpeg</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>bits</name>
<value>
<string>/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD/7AAtRHVja3kAAQAEAAAAUAADABgAAAAKACAA
IAAgACAAIAAgACAAIAAgACAAAP/uAA5BZG9iZQBkwAAAAAH/2wCEAAICAgICAgIC
AgIDAgICAwQDAgIDBAUEBAQEBAUGBQUFBQUFBgYHBwgHBwYJCQoKCQkMDAwMDAwM

---SNIP---

rSlO/wBOAEE+aQo639WjsYVkL3ELtIbiWQNGUG9AqylifirU1r9GWwHPdil000IE
EcFnbtA8rejPC6ckBI9XYkAsBWm3TGXmsUxli1KL6tHYXkl0jxj6zNLAyhYu3DhK
DsKdFPfKtq3Tummn+pxnaINwNOcdSxEdfhDtRanlU9MeqjmmV0zBrAJGSDqUIuGQ
0ofRnoxr2pWu2TA33QUquVf/ABLp0gkT0RFIHh+EfsNQiqknbwYYtj//2Q==</string>
</value>
</member>
</struct>
</value>
</param>

Which looks ok to me, but that is not saying a lot;-)
I then posted the same image successfully with TextMate

Code:

<param><value><struct><member><name>name</name><value><string>2006-08-26_jj_thumb_2.jpg</string></value></member><member><name>bits</name><value><base64>/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD/7AAtRHVja3kAAQAEAAAAUAADABgAAAAK
ACAAIAAgACAAIAAgACAAIAAgACAAAP/uAA5BZG9iZQBkwAAAAAH/2wCEAAIC
AgICAgICAgIDAgICAwQDAgIDBAUEBAQEBAUGBQUFBQUFBgYHBwgHBwYJCQoK

the only differences I can see are the spaces and returns in the stuff sent by appleScript and the fact that appleScript incases the file data in <string> as opposed to <base64>

#80: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:53 am
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john wrote:

the only differences I can see are the spaces and returns in the stuff sent by appleScript and the fact that appleScript incases the file data in <string> as opposed to <base64>

Which is exactly what I said above.

You have tell AppleScript to enclose it in base64 since it is base64-encoded and not a string. Just to repeat the facts.

#81: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:25 am
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hansfn wrote:

john wrote:

the only differences I can see are the spaces and returns in the stuff sent by appleScript and the fact that appleScript incases the file data in <string> as opposed to <base64>

Which is exactly what I said above.

You have tell AppleScript to enclose it in base64 since it is base64-encoded and not a string. Just to repeat the facts.

I know, sorry, but you also said:
Added: Or used the "string" in stead of "base64"
So I was trying that.

I guess that does not work as "string" is what AppleScript seems to be doing. As far as I can find out there does not seem to be a way to get applescript to send anything other than names and values for members of a struct.

Thanks for all the replies and information.

#82: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:55 pm
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Just for the record: When I wrote

Quote:

Or used "string" in stead of "base64"

I was trying to tell you that it was an error to use string in stead of base64.

OK, what I really wanted to tell you is the at least this Cocoa XML-RPC client supports base64 correctly (it seems). As you probably know other people have the same problem as you have - ref a quick Google search.

#83: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: John, Location: Scotland

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:45 am
—

hansfn wrote:

Just for the record: When I wrote

Quote:

Or used "string" in stead of "base64"

Hi Sorry again, I read used as use Embarassed

But I have got this working now. Tom Smith sent me a script when I posted a comment on his blog.
and it worked. The script builds the xml and uses curl to send it rather than the native AppleScript which can only send strings.
Thanks again for all your help.

#84: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: tf,

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:10 am
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I tried to use Performancing with Pivot, but all the Chinese categories and entries in my blog were fetched in wrong charset (not recognizable with lots of "?"s inside). I also tried Performancing with Wordpress and the Chinese are fine, so I guess the issue is on Pivot's side.

My blog's default charset is UTF-8 and has been working great with other browsers. Could the reason be that metaweblog.php doesn't tell correct charset? FYI, I'm using Pivot 1.40beta.

Thanks.

#85: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:08 pm
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Yes, this is (probably) a short comming of the charset handling in Pivot's MetaWeblog implementation. I expected this to come up, but I didn't want to spend time on it until someone complained. I'll have a look at it later this week - expect it to be fixed before 1.40 final.

#86: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: tf,

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:45 pm
—
Thanks hansfn, looking forward to the fix.

#87: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:53 am
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While I'm making a robust version that supports many charsets, not only UTF-8, please test this "hack":

On line 46 in metaweblog.php (right after all the include_once XML-RPC stuff) add

Code:

$xmlrpc_internalencoding = 'UTF-8';

Does that help? (I'm assuming that you are using UTF-8 everywhere.)

#88: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: tf,

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:49 pm
—
It seems to work great now (fetching and posting Chinese content with Performancing). Yes I'm using UTF-8 everywhere.

Thanks hansfn!

#89: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: neezee, Location: Marcipan-City (Lübeck), Germany

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:43 am
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hmm where is the latest version?

my implementation does not run and i wanted to test that one of hansfn out Smile

(yes it is set to yes)

#90: Re: Post to Pivot from a Desktop App Author: hansfn, Location: Molde, Norway

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:05 pm
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The latest version is included in Pivot (1.40.3). On what domain/site are you having problems? (If you can't post that here, send me a PM). Maybe related to:
http://forum.pivotlog.net/viewtopic.php?t=11712

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