How to scedule a Post using XMLRPC / metaWeblog.newPost ??

I found a way to solve my problem, but i had to fix the xmlrpc.php, thats a thing i wount do, because i have to fix it at more than 250 worpressinstallations ?? .

I fixed at the Mothod: mw_newPost($args), starting at line 2007

1st fix: starting at line 2105

if( isset( $content_struct["{$post_type}_status"] ) ) {
			switch( $content_struct["{$post_type}_status"] ) {
				case 'draft':
				case 'private':
				case 'publish':
				case 'future': # <-- ADDED THIS LINE
					$post_status = $content_struct["{$post_type}_status"];
					break;
				case 'pending':
					// Pending is only valid for posts, not pages.
					if( $post_type === 'post' ) {
						$post_status = $content_struct["{$post_type}_status"];
					}
					break;
				default:
					$post_status = $publish ? 'publish' : 'draft';
					break;
			}
		}

2nd fix: starting at line 2203

remove the call off non existing Method ->getIso()

// Do some timestamp voodoo
		if ( !empty( $content_struct['date_created_gmt'] ) )
		{
			$dateCreated = str_replace( 'Z', '', $content_struct['date_created_gmt']/*->getIso()*/ ) . 'Z'; // We know this is supposed to be GMT, so we're going to slap that Z on there by force

		}elseif ( !empty( $content_struct['dateCreated']) ){
			$dateCreated = $content_struct['dateCreated']/*->getIso()*/;
		}

In my code i add 2 fields $content-array if its in future:

if (strtotime($_REQUEST['form']['dateCreated']) > time()) {
	$content['post_status'] 	= 'future';
	$publish			= 0;
}

so my XML will look like:

<methodCall>
<methodName>metaWeblog.newPost</methodName>

<params>
<param>
<value>
<array>
<data>
<value>USERNAME
<string></string>
</value>USERNAME

<value>
<string>{YOUR-WP-USERNAME-HERE}</string>
</value>

<value>
<string>{YOUR-WP-PASSWORD-HERE}</string>
</value>

<value>
<struct>
<member>
<name>wp_slug</name>

<value>
<string></string>
</value>
</member>

<member>
<name>wp_password</name>

<value>USERNAME
<string></string>
</value>
</member>

<member>
<name>wp_author_id</name>

<value>
<string></string>
</value>
</member>

<member>
<name>title</name>
USERNAME
<value>
<string>Test of sceduled Posting</string>USERNAME
</value>
</member>

<member>
<name>description</name>

<value>
<string><p>Test of sceduled Posting</p></string>
</value>
</member>

<member>
<name>mt_excerpt</name>

<value>
<string><p>Test of sceduled Posting</p></string>
</value>
</member>

<member>USERNAME
<name>mt_text_more</name>

<value>
<string></string>
</value>USERNAME
</member>

<member>
<name>mt_allow_comments</name>

<value>
<string></string>
</value>
</member>

<member>
<name>mt_allow_pings</name>

<value>
<string></string>USERNAME
</value>
</member>USERNAME

<member>
<name>date_created_gmt</name>

<value>
<string>2009-12-11 13:00:00</string>
</value>
</member>

<member>
<name>post_status</name>

<value>USERNAME
<string>future</string>
</value>
</member>
</struct>
</value>

<value>
<int>0</int>
</value>
</data>
</array>
</value>
</param>USERNAME
</params>
</methodCall>

I gues there is no other way to solve this problem, until an offical fix will be released.

I hope this will help others with same problem.

greetings

Alexander Kurtz

Damm, i figured out that’s not all to fix, the Posts will have no _gmt-Dates in database and so WP think the schedule was missed, an posts them…

So how to set the _gmt-dates at the xmlrpc.php ???

why this is not completly correctly written ????

Your XML-RPC request is using the wrong data type for dates:

<member>
<name>date_created_gmt</name>

<value>
<string>2009-12-11 13:00:00</string>
</value>
</member>

You are providing the server with a string type instead of a dateTime.iso8601 type – https://www.xmlrpc.com/spec

Hi joseph scott,

did u tried by urself?

i found out not the correct format for the date_created_gmt

<member>
<name>date_created_gmt</name>

<value>

<string>20091113T12:30:00Z</string>
</value>
</member>

but if i post on a unfixed blog, i got nothing as response.

var_dump() of my result just says NULL.

in my eys this lines are responsable for that:

// Do some timestamp voodoo
		if ( !empty( $content_struct['date_created_gmt'] ) )
			$dateCreated = str_replace( 'Z', '', $content_struct['date_created_gmt']->getIso() ) . 'Z'; // We know this is supposed to be GMT, so we're going to slap that Z on there by force
		elseif ( !empty( $content_struct['dateCreated']) )
			$dateCreated = $content_struct['dateCreated']->getIso();

		if ( !empty( $dateCreated ) ) {
			$post_date = get_date_from_gmt(iso8601_to_datetime($dateCreated));
			$post_date_gmt = iso8601_to_datetime($dateCreated, GMT);
		} else {
			$post_date     = $postdata['post_date'];
			$post_date_gmt = $postdata['post_date_gmt'];
		}

how can $content_struct['dateCreated']->getIso() work when $content_struct['dateCreated'] is of type string???

this will result in a php-error. so i will get no return value… and the post will not added to the database.

wenn i remove the ->getIso() all will work fine. the post is added to the database, but as not as future… so i have to add an case 'future': at this lines:

switch( $content_struct["{$post_type}_status"] ) {
				case 'draft':
				case 'private':
				case 'publish':
					$post_status = $content_struct["{$post_type}_status"];
					break;
				case 'pending':
					// Pending is only valid for posts, not pages.
					if( $post_type === 'post' ) {
						$post_status = $content_struct["{$post_type}_status"];
					}
					break;
				default:
					$post_status = $publish ? 'publish' : 'draft';
					break;
			}

then all will work fine, when my client adds

<member>
<name>post_status</name>

<value>
<string>future</string>
</value>
</member>

to the struct.

After doing this i can post a scheduled post using XML-RPC.

In my oppinion this should be fixed soon in the next WP release …

or anyone can explain me how it will work, without this fixes ??

Dates in XML-RPC are not string types, they have a type of dateTime.iso8601. So the snippet of XML should look like:

<member>
<name>date_created_gmt</name>

<value>
<dateTime.iso8601>20091113T12:30:00Z</dateTime.iso8601>
</value>
</member>

This is per the XML-RPC spec that I linked to previously – https://www.xmlrpc.com/spec

I added the date_created_gmt field because there was such confusion (and in some cases poor support in XML-RPC libraries) for dateCreated and time zones. Any date in the date_created_gmt field is GMT, always, with or with out the trailing Z.

what XML-RPC library u are using?

will the ->getIso() call work then??

It doesn’t matter what XML-RPC library you are using, it needs to pass date values as a type of dateTime.iso8601.

For the record I use the same IXR PHP library that WordPress does, it implements both client and server sides of XML-RPC.

Sorry to sound thick but how can I
xmlrpc encode iso8601 dateTime to get

<member>
<name>date_created_gmt</name>

<value>
<dateTime.iso8601>20091113T12:30:00Z</dateTime.iso8601>
</value>
</member>

My code is
$content = array(
‘dateCreated’ => “<dateTime.iso8601>date(“c”)</dateTime.iso8601>”,
);
$params = array(0,$username,$password,$content,true);
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request(‘metaWeblog.newPost’,$params);

This keeps generating a Fatal error: Call to a member function getIso() on a non-object in xmlrpc.php on line 1564

Thanks for any advice

I had been under the same problem. But after reading your posts several times for 3-4 days, I came up with a solution, that you will not need to modify the code of xmlrpc.php. Practically that is not always possible.

HERE IS THE SOLUTION
——————————————-
Because it is necessary to have

<dateTime.iso8601>20100825T08:30:00Z</dateTime.iso8601>

type of tag in XML and the php script does not allow us t do that, simply create your response using XML string.

$request = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>metaWeblog.newPost</methodName>
<params>
 <param>
  <value>
   <int>1</int>
  </value>
 </param>
 <param>

  <value>
   <string>admin</string>
  </value>
 </param>
 <param>
  <value>
   <string>kabhi9901</string>
  </value>

 </param>
 <param>
  <value>
   <struct>
    <member>
     <name>title</name>
     <value>
      <string>Sample Post Title</string>

     </value>
    </member>
    <member>
     <name>description</name>
     <value>
      <string>This is a sample post.</string>
     </value>
    </member>

    <member>
     <name>date_created_gmt</name>
     <value>
      <strong><dateTime.iso8601>20100825T08:30:00Z</dateTime.iso8601></strong>
     </value>
    </member>
    <member>
     <name>categories</name>

     <value>
      <array>
       <data>
        <value>
         <string>Uncategorized</string>
        </value>
        <value>
         <string>History</string>

        </value>
       </data>
      </array>
     </value>
    </member>
   </struct>
  </value>
 </param>
 <param>

  <value>
   <boolean>1</boolean>
  </value>
 </param>
</params>
</methodCall>
';

As you can see in this XML string, that <dateTime.iso8601> tag has been used. Now use this $response in making RPC call

$xmlresponse = get_response($BLOGURL."/xmlrpc.php", $request);

where get_response is this function

function get_response($URL, $context) {
	if(!function_exists('curl_init')) {
		die ("Curl PHP package not installed\n");
	}

	/*Initializing CURL*/
	$curlHandle = curl_init();

	/*The URL to be downloaded is set*/
	curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
	curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
	curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
	curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $context);

	/*Now execute the CURL, download the URL specified*/
	$response = curl_exec($curlHandle);
	return $response;
}

Use the PHP IXR library for XML-RPC requests, it takes care of these sorts of issues.