A new version of remote post has arrived. In addition to everything included in Release 1, this version also introduces the following:
- Getting a list of available categories
- Posting to specific categories
- Entries placed via remote post now reflect the default blog settings (i.e. Allow Pings, Convert Line Breaks, and Allow Comments)
- Bundles in the script to send remote post pings
Download either remote post-2.tar.gz or remote post-2.zip, unpack it, and place the files as follows:
- ConfigMgr.pm: in the lib/MT/ directory
- remotepost.pm and remotepostWww.pm: in the lib/MT/App/ directory
- mt-pi.cgi and mt-www-pi.cgi: in the base MT directory
You will also need the XML::RSS perl module now. If you don't have that installed, you should be able to just download RSS.pm and place it in your extlib/XML/ directory.
Sending a remote post ping is now a two step process:
- Bring up mt-www-pi.cgi in your browser and enter the remote post Ping URL
- The script will then connect to the URL and get a list of categories available on that blog, and present them to you along with a list of entries to pick from and an option to include the ComeBack URL
And just to make sure I have made it explictly clear (which apparently I haven't, and I apologize for that), ComeBack is not fully implemented yet. ComeBack pings can be received by MT, but at the moment, they cannot be sent. I am working on that. Placing a ComeBack Ping URL in the URLs to Ping box in the New/Edit Entry screen will not work for ComeBacks. The ComeBack implementation is currently very different than Trackback, so pinging that way will fail. The send-cb script that I mentioned with the initial release of ComeBack was just meant as an example. It is not for use within MT.
I'll get them working together soon. I promise. :)
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in PostItWww.pm, the lind that reads:
$html .= "<input type='submit' name='select' value='Get Categories' /><br /\n";
should be:
$html .= "<input type='submit' name='select' value='Get Categories' /><br />\n";
it's not that important, but the last BR tag isnt closed properly.
David, I've now got my hands on XML::Parser, so I'm not getting error messages anymore. However, while the post-it is going through fine (sticky notes), I'm not getting the list of categories returned (I set up two). I dropped RSS.pm into extlib/XML. Any ideas?
David, me thinks I got the same XML::Parser problem that Maddy had. Any suggestions on how to solve that? And while I'm at it, any updates for Post-It in the pipeline?
David, me thinks I got the same XML::Parser problem that Maddy had. Any suggestions on how to solve that? And while I'm at it, any updates for Post-It in the pipeline?