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1. theimben
   Member
   Posted 3 years 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. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

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

3. theimben
   Member
   Posted 3 years 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. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 3 years 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 3 years ago #
   

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

6. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

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

7. theimben
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Thank you :)

8. Chris Boyd
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   THANK YOU!

9. lukekfreeman
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi, I'm using this code to post using xmlrcp but it doesn't seem to be parsing the cusom_fields.

   Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
   

   <?php
   	include_once( 'wp-includes/class-IXR.php');
   
   	$method_name = "wp.newPage";
   
   	$rpc_url = "http://www.wheeloftimerp.net/xmlrpc.php";
   	$blog_id    = 1;
   	$username   = $_POST['reply_author'];
   	$password   = $_POST['reply_password'];
   	$publish    = true;    
   
    	$custom_fields = array(
    		"key"   => "Character",
    		"value" => $_POST['reply_character']
   		);
   
   	$post = array(
   	     "title"         => $_POST['reply_title'],
   	     "description"   => $_POST['reply_content'],
   		 "wp_page_parent_id" =>  $_POST['reply_parent'],
   		"custom_fields" => $custom_fields
   	);
   
   	$rpc = new IXR_Client( $rpc_url );
   	$status = $rpc->query(
   	     $method_name,
   	     $blog_id,
   	     $username,
   	     $password,
   	     $post,
   	     $publish
   	);
   
   	if( !$status ) {
   	     print "Error in RPC request\n";
   	     print_r( $rpc );
   	     exit;
   	}
   
   	print_r( $rpc->getResponse( ) );
   	print "\n";
   
   	?>

10. Joseph Scott
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #
    

    The custom fields setup should look like this:

    "custom_fields" => array(
            array( "key" => "state", "value" => "Utah" ),

11. theblogdoctor
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #
    

    has anyone been able to successfully call the NewPost method with Custom Fields? I am still having no luck.

    I am using a .Net Wrapper. I tried first as you all have suggested, with just key and value pairs. However, the Metablog Wrapper gives me an error that custom field ID cannot be null.

    So I tried giving it a random number as ID like so (code is in C# .Net). Now the Post gets inserted, but the custom fields are getting ignored ?!

    CustomField[] cf = new CustomField[1];
                    cf[0].id = "354325";  //random ID number
                    cf[0].key = "image_url";
                    cf[0].value = "http://somesite.com/someimage.jpg";

12. Joseph Scott
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #
    

    See my example above, if all you are doing is inserting a new custom field entry you just need 'key' and 'value' since there is no 'id' yet. The 'id' field is only used when updating an existing value in some way.

13. graytime
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    I am success to call the NewPost method with Custom Fields,the demo below:
    

    function post($result){
            include("xmlrpc.inc");
        	$GLOBALS['xmlrpc_internalencoding'] = 'UTF-8';
        	$c = new xmlrpc_client("xmlrpc.php","example.com", 80);
        	$content['title']="title";
        	$content['description']="content";
        	$content['mt_keywords']="tag1,tag2";
        	$content['wp_password']="";
        	$content['categories'] = array("label");
        	$content['custom_fields'] = array(
        	array( 'key' => 'city', 'value' => 'Sacramento' )
        	);
        	$x = new xmlrpcmsg("metaWeblog.newPost",
        	array(php_xmlrpc_encode("1"),
        	php_xmlrpc_encode("admin"),
        	php_xmlrpc_encode('841321'),
        	php_xmlrpc_encode($content),
        	php_xmlrpc_encode("1")));
    
        	$c->return_type = 'phpvals';
        	$r =$c->send($x);
        	if ($r->errno=="0")
        	echo "success，ID：".$r->val;
        	else {
        		echo "fail";;
        		print_r($r);
        	}
        }

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