[wp-xmlrpc] PHP Library

Tue Jun 15 19:20:29 UTC 2010

Thanks Eric! How did you handle the areguments with struct datatypes like
for creating a new category? Do you just pass in a array with key=>val pairs
or do you have to do special encoding?

Tim

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM, eric at eamann.com <eric at eamann.com> wrote:

>  OK, now I understand what you're doing.
>
>
>
> When I first started working with WordPress and XMLRPC, I tried building my
> own library ... it was taking a long time, and I ran into many of the issues
> you're running in to now.  Someone suggested I use the built-in IXR library
> instead, and it made all the difference.
>
>
>
> Here's a simple example:
>
>
>
> include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-IXR.php');
>
>
>
> $client = new IXR_Client('destinantion_url');
>
>
>
> $client->query('procedure.name', 'arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3', ...);
>
>
>
> $response = $client->getResponse();
>
>
>
> That will load the library, create a new client pointing at whatever WP
> installation you're working with, execute your remote procedure, and store
> the response (errors, data, or whatever) in the $response variable.
>
>
>
>
>  On June 15, 2010 at 6:51 PM Tim Golen <tim at golen.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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