Text only moblogging?

By gkrishna on 13 Oct 2004 at 22:10 UTC

Moblog module with the current cvs version accepts images only, if the message is text only the message is not posted on the blogs (though mailhandler handler retrieves the message)

related discussion here,
http://drupal.org/node/10931

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gkrishna commented 15 October 2004 at 23:51

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As far as the moblog module g

javanaut commented 16 October 2004 at 01:08

As far as the moblog module goes, you would need to specify a "wrapper node type". Any text parts of the message are appended to the body of this wrapper node. Alternatively, you could use mime_registry to map content-type text/plain to, say, a blog type. I'll be working on the moblog module next week, so I'll look into options for this.

There are definitely some loose ends to clean up before it's ready for regular use. For example, dangerous html tags are not filtered out before the node is submitted, so users could use the moblog for malicious intent.

To clarify the "wrapper node" concept..

javanaut commented 16 October 2004 at 01:39

If your phone allows you to post text and a voice memo along with an image, and you specified the wrapper node as 'blog', the wrapper node would be formatted as such:

This is a picture of my cat.  He is very fluffy.

[image of cat]
[link to filestore2 node containing voice memo]

and the blog node would exist separately from the image and the filestore2 voice memo. It would be up to the moblog carrier plugin to determine the format for this. For example, it might make more sense for the memo to be a file attachment instead of its own filestore2 module. Being able to configure this non-programatically is beyond the current capability, but it would be a nice feature if each user could set a preference for such things.

For now, I'm using the attached_node module to create the output for each attachment, so whatever the node would display on the homepage as part of a list is how it would be rendered.