NAME

mt - Adds support for the MovableType XML-RPC API

SYNOPSIS

 use Net::Blogger;

 use Carp;
 use Data::Dumper;

 my $mt = Net::Blogger->new(engine=>"movabletype");

 $mt->Proxy("http://yaddayadda.com/mt-xmlrpc.cgi");
 $mt->Username("asc");
 $mt->Password("*****");
 $mt->BlogId(123);

 $mt->newPost(postbody=>\&fortune(),publish=>1)
   || croak $mt->LastError();

 my $id = $mt->metaWeblog()->newPost(title=>"test:".time,
                                     description=>&fortune(),
                                      publish=>1)
   || croak $mt->LastError();

 my $categories = $mt->mt()->getCategoryList()
   || croak $mt->LastError();

 my $cid = $categories->[0]->{categoryId};

 $mt->mt()->setPostCategories(postid=>$id,
                              categories=>[{categoryId=>$cid}])
   || croak $mt->LastError();

 print &Dumper($mt->mt()->getPostCategories(postid=>$id));

 sub fortune {
   local $/;
   undef $/;

   system ("fortune > /home/asc/tmp/fortune");

   open F, "</home/asc/tmp/fortune";
   my $fortune = <F>;
   close F;

   return $fortune;
 }

DESCRIPTION

Adds support for the MovableType XML-RPC API

OBJECT METHODS

$pkg->getCategoryList()

Returns an array ref of hash references.

$pkg->getPostCategories(\%args)

Valid arguments are

• postid

  String. required

Releases prior to Net::Blogger 0.85 accepted a list of arguments rather than a reference. Version 0.85+ are backwards compatible.

Returns an array ref of hash references

$pkg->setPostCategories(\%args)

Valid argument are

• postid

  String. Required

  categories

  Array ref. required

  The MT docs state that :

  • The array categories is an array of structs containing
    • categoryId

      String.

    • isPrimary

      Using isPrimary to set the primary category is optional--in the absence of this flag, the first struct in the array will be assigned the primary category for the post

Releases prior to Net::Blogger 0.85 accepted a list of arguments rather than a reference. Version 0.85+ are backwards compatible.

Returns true or false

$pkg->getTrackbackPings(\%args)

• *

  postid

  String.

Returns an array reference of hash references who keys are :

• pingTitle
• pingURL
• pingIP

Releases prior to Net::Blogger 0.85 accepted a list of arguments rather than a reference. Version 0.85+ are backwards compatible.

$pkg->supportMethods()

Returns an array reference.

VERSION

0.21

DATE

$Date: 2003/03/05 04:30:42 $

AUTHOR

Aaron Straup Cope

SEE ALSO

Net::Blogger::Engine::Base

http://www.movabletype.org/mt-static/docs/mtmanual_programmatic.html#xmlrpc%20api

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2002-2003, Aaron Straup Cope. All Rights Reserved.

This is free software, you may use it and distribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.