Joomla can be used in a blog like manner using the XML-RPC interface. Unfortunately, Joomla only provides a Blogger API plugin which is rather limited.<\/p>\n
Luckely, some Japanese people created a plugin which improved the supported XMLRPC API’s. It’s called MoveableType XML-RPC Plugin and can be found on the Joomla site.<\/p>\n
Technically this is not only a MoveableType implementation as it supports all functions needed for MetaWeblog and Blogger as well as Google Docs (since version 2.1.0).<\/p>\n
The only thing driving me nuts is the fact that some blog tools refuse to work because the plugin refuses to return a list of supported functions (most programs just assume everthing is supported, which is wrong as almost everything is optional).<\/p>\n
Fortunately this is solved quickly by adding a few lines of PHP to the plugins\/xmlrpc\/movabletype.php file. Find the following section (around line 790):<\/p>\n
function mt_supportedMethods() { return (new xmlrpcresp(new xmlrpcval(array(), \"array\"))); }<\/pre>\nReplace this with the following:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
function mt_supportedMethods() { global $xmlrpcString, $xmlrpcArray; $functions = array(); foreach(array_keys(plgXMLRPCMovableType::onGetWebServices()) as $function_name) $functions[] = new xmlrpcval($function_name, $xmlrpcString); $struct = new xmlrpcval($functions, $xmlrpcArray); return new xmlrpcresp($struct); }<\/pre>\n<\/p>\nAnd voila, there you have it, a fully working function listing enabling your favorite blog program to do its job properly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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