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1. theimben
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I'm using the XML-RPC to add posts and I want to add custom fields to it the post.

   How do I do this?

   Here is the function I'm currently using

   function API_newPost($title,$body,$rpcurl,$username,$password,$categories=array(1)){
   	$categories = implode(",", $categories);
   	$XML = "$title".
   	"$categories".
   	$body;
   	$params = array('','',$username,$password,$XML,1);
   	$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('blogger.newPost',$params);
   	$ch = curl_init();
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
   	curl_exec($ch);
   	curl_close($ch);
   }

2. josephscott
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   The blogger.newPost method doesn't support custom fields, but the metaWeblog.newPost method does.

3. theimben
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I can't work out how to do this. This is what I've tried but it doesn't work. It adds the post but not the custom fields.

   function wpPostXMLRPC($title,$body,$rpcurl,$username,$password,$categories=array(1)){
   	$categories = implode(",", $categories);
   	$XML = "<title>$title</title>".
   	"<category>$categories</category>".
   	$body;
   	$cflds = array('name' => 'a name', 'url' => 'http://www.google.com');
   	$content = array('post_type' => 'post', 'title' => $title, 'description' => $body, 'custom_fields' => $cflds);
   	$params = array('',$username,$password,$content,$XML,1);
   	$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('metaWeblog.newPost',$params);
   	$ch = curl_init();
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
   	curl_exec($ch);
   	curl_close($ch);
   	echo '<pre>'.$request;
   }

4. josephscott
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Custom fields are a set of key/value pairs that look like:

   "custom_fields" = (
           {key = city; value = Sacramento; },
           {key = city; value = Sandy; }
       )

   Try fetching post data with metaWeblog.getPost for a post that already has custom fields and you'll see what they look like.

5. theimben
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   That makes more sense but how would I put that in the function I have?

6. josephscott
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   array(
     array( 'key' => 'city', 'value' => 'Sacramento' ),
     array( 'key' => 'city', 'value' => 'Sandy' )
   )

7. theimben
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Thank you :)

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