How to create category when posting new post via XML RPC ?

  • techaddict

    (@techaddict)


    11 years ago

    How to create category when posting new post via XML RPC if the category doesn’t exist ?

    Currently i am using below function :

    function wpPostXMLRPC($title,$body,$rpcurl,$username,$password,$category,$keywords='',$encoding='UTF-8') {
    $title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
    $keywords = htmlentities($keywords,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);

    $content = array(
        'title'=>$title,
        'description'=>$body,
        'mt_allow_comments'=>1,  // 1 to allow comments
        'mt_allow_pings'=>0,  // 1 to allow trackbacks
        'post_type'=>'post',
        'mt_keywords'=>$keywords,
        'categories'=>array($category)
    );
    $params = array(0,$username,$password,$content,true);
    $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('metaWeblog.newPost',$params);
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
    $results = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $results;
}

    But problem with it is that, it post the post with category only if it already exist, it doesn’t create new category.

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  • I’m using wp.newPost instead of metaWeblog.newPost and non-existing categories and tags are created automatically in the remote site.

    For example:

    $categories = wp_get_post_categories($id);
	$cats = array();
	foreach($categories as $c){
		$cat = get_category( $c );
		$cats[] = utf8_decode($cat->name);
	}

	$tags = get_the_tags($id);
	$ts = array();
	if ($tags) {
		foreach($tags as $tag) {
			$ts[] = utf8_decode($tag->name);
		}
	}

[...]
$content = array(
        'post_title'   => utf8_decode($p->post_title),
        'post_content' => utf8_decode($p->post_content),
[...]
	'terms_names' => array('category' => $cats, 'post_tag' => $ts ),
        'post_status' => 'pending',
	);

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