Support file uploads via blogapi

This patch implements metaweblog's newMediaObject method.

This patch should use the file system functionality exported by file.inc. Storing uploaded files to /tmp is not a practical nor a durable solution. Take a look at how the project module manages file uploads, or how the profile module handles avatars.

well, it does use the file api for the parts that the file api supports. however, the file is not received via an http upload ... it is base64 encoded in the xmlrpc call -- meaning we need to create the file from a string. this patch honours file.inc's temp dir setting to temporarily store the file, then uses file_move() to put it in the proper location. it will not work directly with file.inc until file.inc has something like: file_save($dest, $data).

Can we get this added to 4.4 and HEAD?

For 4.5, I'd like to see it integrated with whatever-image-module-we-pick and probably filestore as well, but this is a very good interim solution.

+10... I just started using NetNewsWire to post and this was the first thing I wanted to do.

Awaiting a better patch.

well... it only took a couple months. but here is a revamped patch that does two things:

1) adds a file_save_data() function to file.inc -- that creates a file using a string of file contents. file_save_data creates a temp file from the string, then uses file_move() to move it to its destination to take advantage of the file collision code and other checks in file_copy().

2) uses said function to store the submitted file from newMediaObject() in blogapi.module.

this patch should also perhaps be backported for a 4.4.2 release?

I think this patch can be usefull for mailhandled content as well, so I am all for including it in core.

Something like the old style module and polder theme could be done by writing stylesheets. Or a filesystem, instead of db, cache.