[TxMt] Blogging bundle and ExpressionEngine

[Martin Winter]

Just for the record and future reference:

The "Z" at the end of the time string signifies that the time is in  
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also referred to as Zulu time  
(hence the Z) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Time_zones

(I came across this a while ago when trying to fix an issue related  
to non-GMT timezones in WordPress and the Blogging bundle.)

Martin


Am 03.12.2006 um 13:43 schrieb Jackie Chappell:

> OK, I seem to have answered my own question :-). In case it helps
> anyone else, here are the steps I needed to take to get the Blogging
> Bundle working with ExpressionEngine (1.5.1).
>
> There are two problems with using the Blogging bundle with EE. The
> first is that the blog id is not in the same format in the endpoint
> URL as standard metaweblog endpoint urls. It looks something like
> this:
>
> http://mydomain.com/pathtoEE/index.php?ACT=25&id=1,  where id=x is  
> the blog id.
>
> The second is that the date format returned by XMLRPC isn't parsed
> properly by the the ruby parser.rb (I'm using ruby 1.8.4), because it
> has a Z on the end of the time string. So, to fix it, make the
> following changes:
>
> 1. Edit /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/parser.rb (the path may be different
> depending on where you installed Ruby), line 87 to read:
>
>      if str =~ /^(-?\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)T(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)Z?$/  
> then
>
> Note the extra Z? near the end of the regular expression.
>
> 2. blogging.rb, line 167 onwards:
>
>    if @endpoint =~ /#(.+)/
>      @blog_id = $1
>    elsif @endpoint =~ /&id=(.+)/ # EE format of blog id in endpoint
>      @blog_id = $1
>    else
>      @blog_id = "0"
>    end
>
> That seems to do the trick for me. It would be sensible to copy the
> Blogging bundle and save the new one under a new name, and with a new
> UUID in info.plist, I guess.
>
> Hope that helps anyone else using EE.
>
> Jackie