WordPress, XMLRPC, MetaWeblog API and xmlrpc-2.2.1 library for PHP
Just an example of using xmlrpc-2.2.1 library for PHP, for creating a new post on a WordPress based blog using MetaWeblog.newPost xml/rpc function.
Of course, you’ll need xmlrpc-2.2.1 library that may be found here. MetaWeblog API documentation may be found here.
// Testing metaWeblogApi require_once dirname(__FILE__)."/xmlrpc-2.2.1/lib/xmlrpc.inc"; // This should be changed with the place you've the xmlrpc.inc file if xmlrpc-2.2.1 library define ('DOMAIN', 'domain.com'); // Put your domain instead define ('BLOGID', 0); // Put your blog id instead define ('USER', 'username'); // Put your username instead define ('PASSWORD', 'userpassword'); // Put your password instead // Create client $cl = new xmlrpc_client ( "/xmlrpc.php", DOMAIN, 80); // Prepare request $req = new xmlrpcmsg('metaWeblog.newPost'); // Parameters one by one to be more clear: $req->addParam ( new xmlrpcval ( BLOGID, 'int')); // blog_id $req->addParam ( new xmlrpcval ( USER, 'string' )); // username $req->addParam ( new xmlrpcval ( PASSWORD, 'string' )); // password $struct = new xmlrpcval ( array ( "title" => new xmlrpcval ( 'metaWeblog.newPost', 'string' ), // title "link" => new xmlrpcval ( 'http://'.DOMAIN.'/metaweblog_test.html', 'string'), // link "description" => new xmlrpcval ( 'Test using metaWeblog.newPost for creating a new post on our blog.', 'string'), // description ), "struct" ); $req->addParam ( $struct ); $req->addParam ( new xmlrpcval (1, 'int')); // publish // Send request $ans = $cl->send($req); var_dump ( $ans );
when I run this code on my local server and wordpress installation I got this to display( and no post was added)
object(xmlrpcresp)#10 (9) {
["val"]=>
int(0)
["valtyp"]=>
NULL
["errno"]=>
int(5)
["errstr"]=>
string(88) “Connect error: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. (0)”
["payload"]=>
NULL
["hdrs"]=>
array(0) {
}
["_cookies"]=>
array(0) {
}
["content_type"]=>
string(8) “text/xml”
["raw_data"]=>
string(0) “”
}
Can u help me to know what is wrong?
Did you change DOMAIN by the name of your host?
Hey thanks for the script, it works for me after testing 15 others lol
May you please add more function like stated in XMLRPC.php file in function mw_newPost($args)
// We’ve got all the data — post it:
$postdata = compact(’post_author’, ‘post_date’, ‘post_date_gmt’, ‘post_content’, ‘post_title’, ‘post_category’, ‘post_status’, ‘post_excerpt’, ‘comment_status’, ‘ping_status’, ‘to_ping’, ‘post_type’, ‘post_name’, ‘post_password’, ‘post_parent’, ‘menu_order’, ‘tags_input’, ‘page_template’);