posting to serendipity using ecto

[TheMM]

Hi all!

Has anyone ever posted to a Serendipity blog using ecto? I tried it today with the latest Serendipity build 0.8-alpha11 and the latest ecto version 2.1.1 (see http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/ ).
With my old Nucleus blog everything went fine, but adressing Serendipity, the ecto application always gives errors. And I'm sure I got the correct API...

Any hints?

Thanks,
TheMM

[garvinhicking]

I only used it recently with some windows application; our XMLRPC API is seldomly used and there's no one acitvely maintaining it - I know that we at least have problems editing existing entries. But posting to the Blog works - which API do you use? MT or Blogger?

Regards,
Garvin

[TheMM]

But posting to the Blog works - which API do you use? MT or Blogger?

I tried both.

[Adriaan Tijsseling]

George Schlossnagle spent some time a year or so ago to get Serendipity to work with ecto using MovableType API. We had quite a few emails back and forth about that. Maybe he can help out here?

[garvinhicking]

I'm afraid George is no longer using up-to-date Serendipity versions, so I doubt he can help there...we would need someone to look into current code, I'm sure the fix will be easy...

Regards,
Garvin

[TheMM]

Anyone out there who can do this fix? Otherwise this would be the reason for me NOT to switch to Serendipity...

TheMM

[garvinhicking]

If you can provide me the full API specs with all input/output values for the API, I can look into it...the last time I tried, I could not find a complete API.

Regards,
Garvin

[Guest]

Try this:

http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanua ... matic.html

It's a good spec.

[Darren]

I had a little muck around in the php file and noticed it was way of spec on certain api's. The first fix I tried was to update blogger get recent posts, which sends postid twice and not the content, you have get the entry using full=true then pass content=body.

Ecto starts to work but posts still wrong....

Since I only learn php yesterday to have a go, I'm not planning to post fixes. I will try and play with it and forward any bugs I find.

Darren

[ridcully]

The Bugfix is very easy. The Pear-Libs are included in the plugin folder and in the bundled-libs folder. I fixed the includes around line 54 and deleted the PEAR-folder in the plugin dir. Now posting and editing works...

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                case 'frontend_xmlrpc':
                    if (!class_exists('XML_RPC_Base')) {
//                        require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/PEAR/XML/RPC.php';
                        require_once S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . '/bundled-libs/XML/RPC.php';
                    }

                    if (!class_exists('XML_RPC_Server')) {
//                        require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/PEAR/XML/RPC/Server.php';
                        require_once S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . '/bundled-libs/XML/RPC/Server.php';
                    }

                    require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/serendipity_xmlrpc.inc.php';
                    $eventData = array('XML-RPC' => true);

                    return true;

                default:

maybe someone can update the xml-rpc-plugin...

regards
ridcully