[TYPO3-timtab] frontend posting possible?

[Peter A. Schott]

Trying to get the "clearPageCacheOnUpdate" option to work.  I've put in all of
the correct page ID's, but when I post, the entry will not show up until I
manually go in the backend and clear the FE cache.  Any idea what I might be
doing wrong?

I really appreciate the information for everything you posted here.  I wasn't
able to write out all of the details because I'd completely forgotten that I'd
done some of those steps.

I also still need to reference the Blog page ID rather than just index.php
alone in order to make LiveWriter work properly.  I don't think I'm doing
anything wrong there, but it's possible I missed some configuration somewhere.

Thanks for any help/advice you can pass on.

-Peter Schott

Oliver Rowlands <oliver at liquidlight.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.