Posting to Wordpress Remotely in PHP

[nickycakes]

I put this on my blog, but I'm sure plenty of people don't read it so here it is. I couldn't find a simple php script to post to wordpress with it's XML-RPC server, so I made my own:

function wpPostXMLRPC($title,$body,$rpcurl,$username,$password,$categories=array(1)){
  $categories = implode(",", $categories);
  $XML = "<title>$title</title>".
         "<category>$categories</category>".
         $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);
}

$rpcurl is the wp xml-rpc server, usually yourblog.com/xmlrpc.php and $categories is an array containing the categories you want it posted to, defaults to uncategorized

 

[audax]

You'll need to use the "metaWeblog.newPost" method if you want to control the publishing date of the post. In that case, it's be better to use a true XML-RPC client so you can pass the date in ISO format with a properly declared value type.

XML-RPC for PHP

 

[Stanley]

Depending on the volume it may be more efficient to post directly to the database.
It takes some effort to map out all the fields but it's doable.

 

[chatmasta]

Remote Control Wordpress through XMLRPC! Sounds good? : 5ubliminal's TellinYa