By noaim on

application for iphone iBlogger

states that it supports Drupal.... I have a clean install of drupal on a server and I am wondering what I have to do to get a blogging software to connect to it

Basically im very familiar with content management systems multiple e107 sites ... Multiple word press sites etc etc...

Drupal looks very promising for what im trying to do

is there a module or plugin that I need server side to get software to recognize the site?

I posted this in 2 places because the other thread was pretty old and didnt necessarily label the topic correctly..

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notarealperson commented

Hmmmm...what kind of information does the iBlogger application ask for in terms of ID/login info?

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gwlongsine commented

iBlogger uses RSD (Real Simple Discovery) when available, for easy configuration of the iBlogger client application.

  • iBlogger starts by asking for the base URL of the blog (e.g. http://my-cool-blog.com/blog/ or whatever the blog "home" page is).
  • It then fetches the RSD information, which provides it with the Access Point for the blog's remote editing API.
  • Finally, it asks for the username and password.
  • If it was unable to find a valid access point, it asks for one of those, too.

/gary
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noaim commented

ok so basically I found a resource which explains what you have to do

http://support.bryght.com/userguide/offline-tools

however I have run into one more problem

once the application is connected the account can post to all available blogs...

But when trying to post a picture it doesn't allow it.. so my question then asks is there a specific thing that has to be enabled to allow for picture uploading and posting in posts ... keep in mind I am currently using the admin account that has access to everything.....

My end goal would be to allow anyone to post to there blog using external applications

I already have it configured so that authenticated users can only post to there blog and the forum... which dont appear on the front page

my admin account has all the functions poll story blog forum etc etc which all show up in the application

is there a specific module for allowing the posting of images to posts (not necessarily the upload module)

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gwlongsine commented

hi noaim,

It appears that Drupal has a few config settings that one need make, to get it working with a blog editor like ecto or iBlogger.

(1) Enable two modules in Drupal (you need them both):
• blog module
• blog API module

(2) Add the "img" tag to the Drupal html filter
There is a filter setting that seems to cause problems, because, by default, it doesn't allow img tags in the html that comes through the blog API, and nobody expects that.

The configuration of Drupal's input formats (i.e. html filters) can be found here, in Drupal:
Administer -> Site Configuration -> Input Formats

In there, you can add "img" and other tags, if needed.

I don't know what the exact setting is that you need to poke, but it basically amounts to "yes, I really mean to use images, do not strip them."

/gary
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http://illumineX.com
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andrewrc commented

Gary

Thanks for instructions. I have a separate problem, I can post comments, tags and location to Blogg, Story and Page etc to Drupal site fine. However I a having problem posting pictures.

I have changed settings as suggested above, however I still receive the error message;

"The response from the sever did not contain valid data" Any suggestions. ?

By the way I really like the app.

Andrew

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qbert119 commented

I have the same trouble as andrewrc. I can post everything but images, has anyone figured this out yet? I have add the img and br tags and set the Blog API file upload limit to 100mb my server limit. I have run out of ideas now.

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andrewrc commented

I got it working by going back to permissions and ticking them on. It would appear leaving them blank leads to error. Hope this helps.

Andrew

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Radiating Gnome commented

Mine worked for a handful of images, then stopped. I eventually found the solution was in the blog's upload limitations, which were set to 1MB per upload, and 1MB per user total. So I had run out of space, and iBlogger was not returning an error message to me that helped find that.

Once I set those values to something larger, my images are showing up on my blog again. Make sure to check this if you're still having problems!

Go to:
admin/settings/blogapi

Change the settings for each upload and total per user, for each user.

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mrgoltra commented

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dr00b commented

~drOOb

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summit commented

Hi, Can with this solution be blogged with drupal on iphone?
EDIT: Solved also, got working through iblogger.
greetings, Martijn