Blogger, the well-known public weblog service, provides an application programing interface (API) to allow remote procedure calls (RPC) to the Blogger service. Drupal supports this Blogger API, which means that many remote clients (e.g. Radio, Blogbuddy, w.bloggar, TextRouter, PerlyBlog), may post to Drupal. These clients provide a bevy of interesting capabilities like offline composing, spellcheck, and WYSIWYG editing; many folks prefer to blog with a client application over typical web forms. By supporting the Blogger API, Drupal grows grander than a web site engine, it\'s a content accepting machine™.
"; - $output .= "The Blogger API uses the XML-RPC protocol for communicating with the outside world. XML-RPC, originally developed by Dave Winer of UserLand Software, is a simple XML-based RPC specification ideally suited to the web. Drupal also uses XML-RPC for several other tasks (e.g. notifiying weblogs.com of blog updates and making/accepting '. l(\"distributed authentication\", \"user/help\") .' requests)
"; + $output .= "Blogger, the well-known public weblog service, provides an application programing interface (API) to allow remote procedure calls (RPC) to the Blogger service. Drupal supports this Blogger API, which means that many remote clients (e.g. Radio, Blogbuddy, w.bloggar, TextRouter, may post to Drupal. These clients provide a bevy of interesting capabilities like offline composing, spellcheck, and WYSIWYG editing; many folks prefer to blog with a client application over typical web forms. By supporting the Blogger API, Drupal grows grander than a web site engine, it's a content accepting machine™.
"; + $output .= "The Blogger API uses the XML-RPC protocol for communicating with the outside world. XML-RPC, originally developed by Dave Winer of UserLand Software, is a simple XML-based RPC specification ideally suited to the web. Drupal also uses XML-RPC for several other tasks (e.g. notifiying weblogs.com of blog updates and making/accepting ". l("distributed authentication", "user/help") ." requests)
"; $output .= "A word of warning on the Blogger API: it is unofficial. It exists because Blogger is one of the most popular services and also they were first to implement an XML-RPC interface to their service. It may not be the best implementation of a distributed weblog API. For a promising candidate, see the Echo project.
"; - $output .= "Drupal\'s support for the Blogger API is quite complete. Each method with an asterisk below has been implemented in Drupal.
"; + $output .= "Drupal's support for the Blogger API is quite complete. Each method with an asterisk below has been implemented in Drupal.
"; $output .= "blogger.newPost()*
blogger.editPost()*
blogger.getUsersBlogs()*
blogger.getUserInfo()*
blogger.getTemplate()
blogger.setTemplate()
Drupal also supports the following methods. These methods were added after the those listed above and are not documented on the Blogger API web site. Each method is linked to its corresponding blogger-dev mailing list posts:
"; $output .= "blogger.getPost()*
blogger.getRecentPosts()*
blogger.deletePost()*
Once the API is enabled you can download one of the above mentioned Blogger API clients and get blogging.
"; $output .= "The Drupal page you need to call in order to connect using the Blogger API is http://server/xmlrpc.php where server is the URL of the site you want to post to. As an example when posting to drupal.org, the account settings for w.bloggar would be: host: www.drupal.org (default = plant.blogger.com) and page: xmlrpc.php (default = /api/RPC2).
"; - $output .= "You can't use remote authentication when posting using a Blogger API enabled client, even when you could use that to authenticate on the site itself. You will have to use the site\'s local username, enter a password for that account, and then use that combination to post using the Blogger API client.
"; + $output .= "You can't use remote authentication when posting using a Blogger API enabled client, even when you could use that to authenticate on the site itself. You will have to use the site's local username, enter a password for that account, and then use that combination to post using the Blogger API client.
"; $output .= "