Comments on: Ping-o-matic RPC Interface

By: runningtings

runningtings — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:56:39 +0000

i use this every time i post.
its great…

By: Marky Moo

Marky Moo — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:24:17 +0000

Cheers. Now I just need some time…

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:13:34 +0000

From what I understand, the PEAR XML-RPC package is just a slightly modified version of the Useful, Inc. library.

The nice thing about the IXR lib is that it abstracts things out a bit more. It doesn’t force you to “manually” encode/decode all of the data that you’re sending back and forth. When I originally created my Blog Service Pinger, I was using the Useful, Inc. libs. But when Matt and I relaunched it as Ping-O-Matic, I reprogrammed my routines using IXR, and it made the code a little simpler.

But either library will work fine. Good luck!

By: Marky Moo

Marky Moo — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:06:36 +0000

Thanks Dougal. Yes, I just discovered the specific page at http://www.xmlrpc.com/weblogsCom. I was thinking of using
PEAR’s XML_RPC package as I already make use of other PEAR packages on BritBlog. However, I will investigate these other tools too. Thanks again

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:57:10 +0000

You can find general info about the XML-RPC protocol and the weblogs.com ping specification at xmlrpc.com. Currently, WordPress is using the Useful, Inc. PHP library for XML-RPC protocol handling. But we’re probably going to switch one day to Simon Willison’s IXR library.

Maybe those links will help you get started

By: Marky Moo

Marky Moo — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:50:37 +0000

Doh! Reading the page slowly tells me that they use an interface the same as weblogs.com. Now to find out how that works…