xml-rpc question

All,

Well found and downloaded the IXR_Library.php from:

http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/

Using that and the following got the upload working:

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

But the upload is still going up as a parent page, not as subpage.

Could use help with understanding and correcting this.

TBNK

J,

Well first, since it is my first rodeo, I don’t know what you are referring to, so links and resources would be helpful?

Second how does one trap the “raw XML”?

Thanks!

TBNK

All,

Appears this is a “Correct Formatting” issue.

Ah but what I found is this code resolves, when I feed my source to this function:

function xml_entities($text, $charset = 'Windows-1252'){
      $text = htmlentities($text, ENT_COMPAT, $charset, false); // Encode html chars
      $arr_xml_special_char = array (""","&","'",
      				     "<",">");
      $arr_xml_special_char_regex = "(?";                       // Build the regex
      foreach($arr_xml_special_char as $key => $value){
         $arr_xml_special_char_regex .= "(?!$value)";
      }
      $arr_xml_special_char_regex .= ")";
      $pattern = "/$arr_xml_special_char_regex&(".
      		 "[a-zA-Z0-9]+;)/";                             // Scan for non XML
      $replacement = '&${1}';                               // Replace non XML
      return preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $text);
   }  // end function

and I can even fix with this abbreviated function of:

function fix_xml ($text, $charset = 'Windows-1252'){
      $text = htmlentities($text, ENT_COMPAT, $charset, false); // Encode html chars
      //$text = htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_COMPAT, $charset, false); // Encode html chars
      return $text;
   }  // end function

I tried fixing it with just the “htmlspecialchars” but still get the errors and when the code/context from this is submitted to WordPress all the html formatting is lost, and it must be maintained.

Appears I am looking only to convert specific HTML codes to their “&xxx;” equivalents. Any ideas on which codes actually need converting to meet the XML formatting rules, especially for WP?

Thanks!

TBNK

All,

OK! After trying several more things it is appearant that XML requires all HTML character to be converted to character reps of the same and WordPress must contain something in the XML-RPC that converts the encoded HTML characters back to regular HTML, as Scribefire works fine dumping an HTML page into WordPress.

It must be some option that I need in my upload string, so the decoding is enabled. But what is that code. I’m not finding it in my searches of the manuals. Guess I do not have right keyword sequence.

TBNK

Joseph,

Tried your fix and still get the wrong thing.

Look at this link please:

http://waelinc.com/seo-%E2%80%93-articles/smo-social-media-optimization-company-for-the-city-of-addison-tx/

You see the HTML tags are still encrypted as “<tagname>” so not being interpreted and formatting. In the edit mode, within WordPress, there are two options, a.) Visual, b.) HTML (upper right tabs) and the visual is coming out like the text should read in the HTML.

Not quite sure how to use your fix, of the upgrade that is suppose to fix all this, but need my text to convert back to HTML as that is my source file(s).

Thanks!

TBNK

Joseph,

Saw you work and I think you can help. Please look over the code at:

http://pastebin.com/pSYxsB5B

and let me know what is wrong. I think either wrong hook or wrong invocation action. Let me know.

Thanks!

TBNK

Status4,

No had to get off this project for a while, others more pressing. Went to IRC for WordPress and the experts there were clueless on this also.

Boils down to getting the “right method” and the “right handler” and not knowing any WP internals nor philosophy, I would just have to read up on all them and try them one by one, till it works, which I currently have no time for.

If you can get someone with WP internals knowledge to chime in on this should be able to fix in minutes.

Thanks!

TBNK