POST TO BLOG

How to Post To Blog (PHP Script)

Post To Blog FEATURE OVERVIEW

This is a cute little morcel of code that I found. (Here is an exerpt of what the Post To Blog script does. It can provide you with similar functionality to the POST-TO-BLOG option on DIGG.com...You must go the actual site to download the code.

1- The Post to BLOG PHP script works as a PHP script executed upon email reception but you do not have to run a cron job because your posts will appear instantaneously on your blog.

2- The Post to BLOG PHP script handles JPEG pictures, will automatically create a thumbnail if they are too big and insert all necessary code in your post.

3- The Post to BLOG PHP script can be run on a separate machine from your WP install: it uses xmlrpc to post the entry and can be set to use ftp to upload the picture files.

4- The Post to BLOG PHP script can handle as many blogs and authors as you want. For each email account you can customize any aspect of the posts (image formatting, posting category etc). For example, you can easily set up the script to let 5 authors post to your blog with each one under a different category.

This POST to BLOG PHP script is not trivial to set up.

The POST2BLOG installation instructions are detailed instructions that should hopefully be sufficient for non-technical people to follow. However the work to hook up the Blog To Post script to the email address can be somewhat complicated, and more importantly, it heavily depends on each hosting solution. With all the various hosting solutions on the Internet, this makes the POST-TO-BLOG documention quite difficult to be accurate. Overall, you should be fine if you have ONE of the following: A "mail forwarding" feature is required in your web server Control Panel. (This is a common feature available on most hosting accounts - especially if the HOST control panel is the very common "CPANEL" solution). The POST-TO-BLOG script will forward emails and to the script which posts to the blog using XML-RPC protocol.