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Hello

I downloaded the newest Ecto Version from the Server and also the new S9Y Software. Upgraded the System and updated also the RPC Plugin with Spartacus.

Then I started Ecto and chose S9Y as my blog software - give Ecto the right path to the xmlrpc file and after clicking OK ECTO usere 100% CPU on my MAC and nothing happens.

I know that this or a older version worked nearly perfect wiht S9Y Beta 2 cause I tested it on 29 of March (http://blog.gotchi.at/index.php?/archiv ... ipity.html)

So was there a change in the XML RPC Plugin in S9Y which causes the problems or is ECTO the problem?

thx for helping

Hi!

The core has not changed from beta2 to beta3 in regards to the XMLRPC plugin; and the xmlrpc plugin itself has not changed for 2 or 3 weeks.

Maybe the ecto version changed meanwhile and does something different?

Maybe you can edit your serendipity_xmlrpc.inc.php file of the plugin, enable the debugging variable and see what is put into the logfile?

Which exact version of the xmlrpc plugin are you running?

Regards,
Garvin

I dont know if the version of ECTO changed.
I will answer this question tomorrow afternoon. Cause I deinstalled the old Version for some days completely on my mac then I installed the new S9Y software and today I downloaded the latest ECTO to try it once again.
So I have to look in my software archive on the other PC where I save all my downloaded software.

plugin version:
Einträge via XML-RPC erstellen
Ermöglicht Einträge via XML-RPC API zu erstellen/bearbeiten (MT, Blogger API-Endpunkte)
version: 1.20

Hi!

The latest version of that plugin is 1.23, please fetch it from spartacus.s9y.org.

Regards,
Garvin

ok thanx

i fount a problem with spartacus in my s9y installation.
looking for new plugins via the admin backand says that der is a new version - then I install it - the grafik turns from red to white - installation successfull but the plugin overview already says 1.20.

its a little bit strange

Hi!

SF.Net is currently not updating their anonymous CVS, which is why it delivers older plugins. You need to switch your file mirror to "Netmirror.org" until those problems are resolved!

Best regards,
Garvin

yeah!!!

i switched to netmirror - deinstalled the old plugin - reinstalled the new one and voila - ecto synced everything

juhuu thanx for helping me

next problem with ecto

like you will see on the site and the link
http://blog.gotchi.at/index.php?/archiv ... ;cher.html

der goes something wrong with the umlaute.

ecto has a option for not utf8 blogs to convert the characters into html. i have installed the plugin for correcting xhtml errors, without this plugin not only the header description won't be able to display umlaute also the blog entry title in the main part (after the date of publish) will show this nice character combination

so what should I do - my blog is not UTF8.
is there a solution for nicer links and header titles?
should I convert and how?

why do the s9y editor make a better job - cause old posts with the admin editor translated the ö ä ü to oe ae ue.

thanx for helping

Hi!

You'll need to tell ecto to post entries with ISO-8859-1 charset then. I don't know if it provides such an option?

The problem is that ecto sends HTML entities instead of native characters to the blog.

Regards,
Garvin

it looks like ecto only allows utf8 and html entities for my posts to send.

so is it a good choice to convert my blog zu utf8 or not?
when yes what problems will I have in future and how can I convert the whole thing.

Hi!

Hm, basically I think that Ecto does not submit UTF-8 special characters but HTML entities. So I don't know if switching your blog to UTF-8 would help.

You could try to install a test-blog in UTF-8 format and see if it works there? Then if it doesn't you don't need to go through the work of converting your blog to UTF-8...

Best regards,
Garvin

hi

so I installed a testinstallation and blogged with UTF8 and Ecto.

as you can see here
http://gotchi.at/serendipity/index.php? ... EUEss.html
everything works fine

so whats the best way to convert all my entries to UTF8 oder import them into a new blog system of s9y.

thx for helping

does it make sense to set UTF8 as blog charset in my old blog and only start blogging my new entries with utf8 ?

end editing the old entries by hand to utf8?

or is this a bad solution - is there a better way ?

Hi!

Okay, if ecto really does not offer a ISO-8859-1 charset posting mode, you should convert your blog to UTF-8.

The easiest way is to make a SQL DB dump file, use an editor to save it in UTF-8 format, and then upload that new SQL dump file. Then set your charset in the configuration to "UTF-8", and all should work.

HTH,
Garvin

is it really necessary to convert every single char in the sql dump or is it enough to convert only the blog entries?

cause in this case I will go through all my entries and update them with ecto on the server (cause some pics and categories have changed since the first post )