I want to use this function:
http://www.frankmacdonald.co.uk/php/post-to-wordpress-with-php.html
Its used to post to Wordpress using XMLRPC, can anyone give me the basics for using this function and maybe a brief over view?
I want to learn how functions work and how to use them.
EDIT:
The below guideance works like a dream.
I want to use a foreach loop to cycle through a number of entries and post them all to WP, wonder if anyone could advise?
Nothing much to do here, it's pretty much ready to run already.
Just replace the example values given in the first lines:
$title = 'This is the post title';
$body = 'this is the post content';
$rpcurl = 'http://www.yourwordpressblog.com/xmlrpc.php';
$username = 'myusername';
$password = 'mypassword';
$category = ''; //default is 1, enter a number here.
$keywords = 'one,two,three';//keywords comma seperated.
$encoding ='UTF-8';//utf8 recommended
with some actual data. (The link to xmlrpc.com should be www.yourdomain.com/xmlrpc.php if your blog resides in the root directory.)
Put the whole thing into a PHP file, and run it. If you're lucky, everything will run fine on the first go. If it doesn't, come back and edit your question.
If you want to post several items, there are only a few things that change for every post:
The RPC URL, username, password and encoding is standard because I also suppose you're posting it onto the same website. So we only have to store the 4 named items in an array that we can run through. I store the items in another array, so we have an array of arrays.
You could easily write something like this:
// We create a post array that contains an array per post.
// I put in the data index based. First item is title, second is content body, third is category, fourth is keywords.
$posts = array(
array('Title','Contents','category','keywords'),
array('Another post','More content','another category ID','etc.'),
// You can add more items if you want.
);
// These are just general settings that are the same for each post.
$rpcurl = 'http://www.yourwordpressblog.com/xmlrpc.php';
$username = 'myusername';
$password = 'mypassword';
$encoding ='UTF-8';
foreach($posts AS $Post)
{
// From the foreach we get an array with post data each cycle.
// To keep things a bit clear, I will extract the data to seperate variables..
$title = $Post[0];
$body = $Post[1];
$category = $Post[2];
$keywords = $Post[3];
wpPostXMLRPC($title,$body,$rpcurl,$username, $password,$category,$keywords,$encoding);
}