[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6612: Problems with setting XML-RPC date using metWeblog.newPost()

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#6612: Problems with setting XML-RPC date using metWeblog.newPost()
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 Reporter:  Da_fonz            |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect (bug)       |       Status:  closed   
 Priority:  normal             |    Milestone:           
Component:  XML-RPC            |      Version:  2.8.4    
 Severity:  normal             |   Resolution:  invalid  
 Keywords:  reporter-feedback  |  
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Changes (by effectivemarketing):

  * status:  reopened => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:7 westi]:
 > Your request is incorrectly encoding the date as a <string></string> not
 an <dateTime.iso8601></dateTime.iso8601> as it should be.
 >
 > If you encode your request correctly then it will work.

 Hi,

 Ok, understood.

 The corrected code THAT WILL WORK is as follows:

 {{{
 <?php
   include_once('wp-includes/class-IXR.php');

   $url = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/xmlrpc.php';
   $user = 'admin';
   $pass = 'password';

   $client = new IXR_Client($url);

   $date = new IXR_Date('20090815T10:00:00');
   $client->query('metaWeblog.newPost', 1, $user, $pass,
                  array('post_status' => 'draft',
                        'title' => 'Date Set Test Post',
                        'description' => 'Test Post',
                        'dateCreated' => $date), 1);

   $res = $client->getResponse();

   if ($res) {
     print "Post #$res added successfully<br>\n";
   } else {
     print "Post not added<br>\n";
   }

 ?>
 }}}

 My apologies - however the confusion arises from the Codex
 ([http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp]) which isn't very clear.

 The codex states (for instance for wp.newPage) that the format for the
 dateCreate parameter is:

 {{{
 datetime dateCreate
 }}}

 So when reading this there wasn't sufficient information to understand the
 datetime itself had to be encapsulated in
 {{{<dateTime.iso8601></dateTime.iso8601>}}} before it would work.

 Also, there is very little documentation about the IXR_Client library
 which makes it a bit more difficult to find the relevant information. I
 guess I would have reached the correct conclusion earlier if I had built
 the XML file from scratch rather than using the IXR_Client class.

 Ticket can be closed; the above code works perfectly.

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