By Jonnay on

I am trying to use Drupal (4.4RC) with blogapi XMLRPC, and a PalmOS Blogger tool called Plog. Plog Asks for 4 things, URL, Blog Name, username and password. I don't exactly know what to put in for "Blog Name". Anything I try just sends back the message "Plogger Could not find blogid at URL [URL] with name [Blog Name]". Leaving "Blog Name" as blank doesn't work either.

Has anyone gotten Plog to work with Drupal? Failing that, Can I turn on some kind of verbose logging for the XMLRPC module, so that I can see what is going on, and perhaps fix the problem myself?

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teradome’s picture

teradome commented

Yeah, I'm experiencing the exact same problem. Been searching for a half-hour now... there's no docs that explicitly say what blogid value you're supposed to enter when using an external editor and the blogapi.module! All I can find is an apparently outdated book page on using w.bloggar that doesn't say anything about which login to use or the like.

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florin commented

I wonder if this is a typical blog API problem.
There's a blog-oriented patch to Drupal, called Drupal for Bloggers (D4B), which has a few fixes and additions to the API:

http://james.seng.cc/wiki/wiki.cgi?Drupal_For_Bloggers

Perhaps Plog works with that one?
If you cannot test D4B yourself, there's a D4B test site here, offering open subscriptions:

http://james.seng.cc/drupal/

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teradome’s picture

teradome commented

No, I think it is a documentation issue... to support metaWeblog you must provide a URL to the XML-RPC script and a "blog id." So far, I've found no mention of what this blog id should be set to for Drupal -- it is the user's ID number? is it their account name? Where is this documented?

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junyor commented

It should always be 1. It would only be something else if each user could have multiple blogs.

The feature needed for the blog tool to get this information on its own was recently added in CVS: http://drupal.org/node/view/8382.

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walkah commented

the blog id *is* your userid.

but, yes recent CVS should now detect thanks to the RSD patch.

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