blog - mozblog or other blog tools

By cu8164kp@freshmeat.net on 30 Jun 2003 at 17:18 UTC

Hi all, I'm trying to find a good blogging tool to update my drupal site with. I found a couple windows blogging clients that work, but haven't found crap in linux that works decent. I've been trying mozblog (blog module for mozilla) but that dosen't every seem to connect.

What are some good blogging clients for linux?

Has anybody got mozblog to work with drupal? If so, how?

Thanks,

Keith

Comments

Are you using bloggerapi.module?

cczona commented 30 June 2003 at 19:25

(You didn't mention having enabled bloggerapi.module first, so just in case...)

Mozblog needs the blog server (i.e. Drupal) to support Blogger API. If you haven't enabled bloggerapi.module already, the instructions are here.

Good luck!

Yes - bloggerapi is on

cu8164kp@freshmeat.net commented 30 June 2003 at 19:45

Yes it's on. I even have it sending updates to drupal. I can also connect to the blogs with 2 or 3 different clients in Windows.

It's just the mozilla blog client dosen't seem to work. I choose "other" for the type of blog, put in my user/pass and $mysite/xmlrpc.php for the url.

Just did another look and still can't find any other clients that work in Linux. Editing via the web in drupal is pretty painfull rightnow so I'm just trying to find a easier way.

Keith

Your problem...

matthew-at-barnson.org commented 30 June 2003 at 19:53

Your problem isn't Drupal's xmlrpc module if you're using the latest release candidate.

It's that you didn't understand the instructions as written (a common mistake), particularly this line:

Note: If you are using Mozilla 1.3 you need
to update your xmlrpc module. To update, save href="/nsXmlRpcClient.js">this file and put it in the components folder inside the main mozilla folder.
Overwrite the existing file if it prompt you to do so. If you don't know where you mozilla directory is do a
search and put in the string 'mozilla'.

You need that js file regardless of what version of Mozilla you're running, otherwise mozblog just doesn't work.

I use Mozblog to keep My Drupal Blog and My Planetside Outfit's web site up-to-date. With the updated xmlrpc javascript, it works pretty well.

You'll need to use <title> tags to indicate your blog title and the  tag to separate your preview from your content. You'll also want to set up your line breaks in Mozblog so that Drupal won't just ignore them. Oh, and for me, because I prefer to use paragraphs, I enter &quote;Paragraph" mode every time I start the WYSIWYG editor.

There are some lightweight blogging clients that are discussed on this board, but so far for me mozblog has been the strongest contender.

Your right

cu8164kp@freshmeat.net commented 30 June 2003 at 20:54

I thought from the instructions it only applied to version 1.3. I'm currently using Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.4b1. Both worked when I added that file.

I tried the < !-- break -- > tag but it didn't seem to work. What is a template that you would use? Here is what I tried.

< title > Some title< /title >
Preview comments
< !-- break -- >
Actual body of message....

Thanks again..

Keith

Here's mine

matthew-at-barnson.org commented 30 June 2003 at 21:08

Make sure you're in source mode when you attempt to add your tags. Source mode is entered by clicking the "S" on the left-hand side. If you attempt to type it into the WYSIWYG editor (the "B" mode on the left-hand side), you'll just end up with the stuff showing up as text.

You also have to have enough content that, according to your site's configuration, Drupal's preview mode should kick in. So bring up some web site (Slashdot.org works well for this), select it all, paste it into the WYSIWYG editor, then go to source mode and add these lines to the beginning:

<title>Some Random Blog Entry&lt/title>
This is my random blog entry. It's completely random. It has nothing to do with anything. As a matter of fact, it's just text sucked from Slashdot.org. But it works for this mozblog test. Whoopee.

The really, really nice thing about using mozblog is that it makes formatting of certain things much faster. The title and preview text is obnoxious, though, just because Drupal needs you to use title and break entities. Other than that, though, it's smooth sailing.

One note...

matthew-at-barnson.org commented 30 June 2003 at 21:11

By default, Drupal's implementation of the blogger API doesn't promote stuff to the front page. So you'll still have to visit the post you just made and click "promote to front page" if it's a one-user site like my personal blog is.