[TYPO3-timtab] frontend posting possible?

[Oliver Rowlands]

Hi Oleg,

I've managed to get timtab working with Windows Live Writer 
(http://writer.live.com/) and the MetaWeblog API but it did require 
modifying a few things in timtab's web services source code. The 
MetaWeblog API spec is so vague that it has been interpreted in many 
different ways by many different vendors. Of course timtab is not to 
blame, the Microsoft developers simply did not implement the spec 
correctly  ;)

You can find a comprehensive list of other MetaWeblog complient clients 
on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaWeblog

Anyway in order to get the Metaweblog API enabled you will have to do 
the following:

- Enable the the 'Blog Webservices (timtab)' static include in your root 
template: 'List' mode > Click the page title of the page containing your 
root template > Edit the template > Select 'Blog Webservices (timtab)' 
in the 'Include static (from extensions)' field' > Save and close.

- Add the following TS to your root templates TS constants:

plugin {
   tx_timtab {
     homepage = http://[DOMAIN]/path/to/blog/
     title = [BLOG TITLE]
     blogPid = [BLOG HOMEPAGE PAGE ID]
     homePid = [SITE HOMEPAGE PAGE ID]
     clearPageCacheOnUpdate = 1,31,169 # Insert a comma separated list 
of page IDs which contain the tt_news / timtab plugins (LIST, SINGLE, etc)
   }
   tx_timtab_pi2 {
     enableBlogger = 1
     enableMetaWeblog = 1
     pidStorePosts = [SYSFOLDER PAGE ID WHERE THE POSTS ARE STORED]
     enableUploads = 1
   }
}

You should now be able to access your Metaweblog XML-RPC interface at 
the following URI (this is the URI you should use in your desktop 
publishing application) using your backoffice username and password:

http://www.domain.com/index.php?type=200

You can remap this page type in RealURL to a unique filename for example:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['EXTCONF']['realurl']['_DEFAULT'] = array(

[...]

'fileName' => array(
     'index' => array(
       'rpc.xml' => array('keyValues' => array('type' => 200)),
     ),

[...]

);

And you should then be able access it using the far more elegant:

http://www.domain.com/rpc.xml

I hope this helps,

Oliver

Oleg wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> I'll appreciate if can you give a more detailed example. What tool do 
> you use?
> 
> Peter A. Schott wrote:
>> It's possible to use blogging tools to connect.  I had that working 
>> for my
>> website.  You need to run through the various config options for RSS, 
>> etc, but
>> once you do that, you can:
>>
>> 1. point your tool at the blog page
>> 2. Use a back-end login for username/password
>> 3. Choose MetaWebLog API for the type of blog.
>> 4. point to the blog page, but add "&type=200" for the posting URL.
>>
>> Once I did all of that, had no issues except with the categories.
>>
>> For some reason, categories are passed back with "categoryName" and
>> "description" but MetaWebLog expects only description.  Easy to work 
>> around -
>> just be sure that your "Description" fields are filled out for all 
>> tt_news
>> category entries.


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