[Richard Moon]

I have a standard WordPress site running on Hostgator. I am trying to add a post from an external php application. I am using class.bloggerclient.php in conjunction with xmlrpc.php that comes with WordPress. Rather than adding a post as it should I am getting the following error: “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.”.

Does anyone have experience adding a post from an external application? Is there a better approach for doing this successfully?

********* Here is the php application code:

include_once(“class.bloggerclient.php”);

$username = “myusername”;
$password = “mypassword”;

$blog = new bloggerclient($username, $password);
$blogID = “12345”;
$testPost = “This is the post that I am trying to add!!”;
$publish = true;

$myPost = $blog->newPost($blogID, $textPost, $publish);

********* First few lines of the class.bloggerclient.php file:

require_once(“xmlrpc.php”);

class bloggerclient {

var $appID = “YOU MUST PLACE YOUR BLOGGER API KEY HERE”;
var $bServer = “mysite.com”;
var $bPath = “/xmlrpc.php”;
var $apiName = “blogger”;
var $blogClient;
var $XMLappID;
var $XMLusername;
var $XMLpassword;

[D.K. Smith]

Try this first:

1. Rename the following code “rpctest.php”

Note: Replace “& lt;” and “& gt;” with less-than and greater-than symbols.

Code:

<?php
// XMLRPC Remote Publishing TESTER – WPSecurity.com
header(‘Content-Type: text/plain’);
echo ‘PHP: ‘, (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, ‘5.2’, ‘>=’) ? ‘compatible’ : ‘needs updating’), PHP_EOL;
echo ‘ionCube Loader: ‘, (extension_loaded(‘ionCube Loader’) ? ‘a-okay’ : ‘not working’), PHP_EOL;
echo ‘cURL HTTP Client: ‘, (extension_loaded(‘curl’) ? ‘a-okay’ : ‘not working’), PHP_EOL;
echo ‘ZIP: ‘, (extension_loaded(‘zip’) ? ‘a-okay’ : ‘not working’), PHP_EOL;
echo ‘XMLRPC: ‘, (extension_loaded(‘xmlrpc’) ? ‘a-okay’ : ‘not working’), PHP_EOL;
?>

Upload to your site’s root and call it from a browser. You want to see that everything is working.

[Richard Moon]

Thanks D.K. Here is the output:

PHP: needs updating
ionCube Loader: a-okay
cURL HTTP Client: a-okay
ZIP: a-okay
XMLRPC: a-okay

Even though it says “PHP: needs updating”, I don’t think that is an issue. I did a phpinfo() which confirmed the following: PHP Version 5.2.17.

[Richard Moon]

f.y.i. I came across this:

http://foliovision.com/2007/05/19/xml-rpc-server-wordpress-error

This is what the beginning of my xmlrpc.php file looks like:

define(‘XMLRPC_REQUEST’, true);

// Some browser-embedded clients send cookies. We don’t want them.
$_COOKIE = array();

// A bug in PHP < 5.2.2 makes $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA not set by default,
// but we can do it ourself.
if ( !isset( $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA ) ) {
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents( ‘php://input’ );
}

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