[wp-xmlrpc] PHP Library

[Tim Golen]

Hi Joseph,

Right on, that's exactly what I needed to know.

I've been using http://devzone.zend.com/article/1307 for the XML-RPC (lower
level) API, and then building my own PHP library on top of that (with the
Wordpress functions). I'll go and check out the IXR library to see if that
helps.

All of the calls that I am making that pull data from Wordpress are working
fine. It's just when trying to create data (wp.newComment, wp.newCategory,
metaWeblog.newPost) they are all giving me similar data errors:

Sorry, the new category failed.

Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.

Content, title, and excerpt are empty.

I've been debugging the thing to death and still can't get any closer. I
have a feeling that it has something to do with how the struct datatypes are
being encoded in the XML-RPC portion. Here is a sample of my code:


$this->makeRequest(
'wp.newComment',
array(
new xmlrpcval($blogId),
new xmlrpcval($this->username),
new xmlrpcval($this->password),
new xmlrpcval($postId),
xmlrpc_encode(array(
'comment_parent'=>intval(0),
'content'=>strval($comment->content),
'author'=>strval($comment->author),
'author_url'=>strval($comment->author_url),
'author_email'=>strval($comment->author_email)
)),
));

The structure containing the comment information ends up being encoded to
this:

<params>
<param>
 <value>
  <struct>
   <member>
    <name>comment_parent</name>
    <value>
     <int>0</int>

    </value>
   </member>
   <member>
    <name>content</name>
    <value>
     <string>comment</string>
    </value>
   </member>

   <member>
    <name>author</name>
    <value>
     <string>Tim</string>
    </value>
   </member>
   <member>
    <name>author_url</name>

    <value>
     <string>http://www.golen.net/blog</string>
    </value>
   </member>
   <member>
    <name>author_email</name>
    <value>
     <string>tim at golen.net</string>

    </value>
   </member>
  </struct>
 </value>
</param>
</params>


And all that is encoded the way they discuss it at
http://devzone.zend.com/article/1307. I'll take a look at the IXR library
and see if that does any better of a job. I appreciate all of your help and
suggestions with this! Once I get the PHP library built, I think it would be
an invaluable resource to post on the Wordpress site somewhere.

Tim

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Joseph Scott <joseph at josephscott.org>wrote:

> There are 2 different "levels" of libraries for the the WP XML-RPC
> APIs.  First, lower level XML-RPC only APIs.  These take care of all
> the XML-RPC work, but don't know anything about the specific methods
> that WordPress provides.  For that layer I recommend the PHP IXR
> library, which is what WordPress uses.
>
> The next level up are libraries both take care of the XML-RPC details
> and know about the various methods that WP exposes.  I've seen some
> Perl libraries that fit into this category, but I haven't seen much in
> the of PHP ones.
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Tim Golen <tim at golen.net> wrote:
> > Is there already an existing PHP library for the Wordpress API? I'm still
> > running into problems and don't need to reinvent the wheel if it's
> already
> > been done. The MetaWeblog API mentions a PHP library, but it comes up
> with a
> > 404 error, and the MetaWeblog site hasn't been updated since 2003.
> > Errors like "Invalid Data: Please go back and try again." when trying to
> do
> > something rather simple like create a comment can get really frustrating.
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Scott
> joseph at josephscott.org
> http://josephscott.org/
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