Add Syndication to symfony-driven Blog

If you have a standalone blog powered by symfony framework, and would like to add syndication with major blog services like Blogger or LiveJournal, you could use a PEAR “Services_Blogging” package.

Download

First, you download it and then install following this tutorial.

Extract the archive and put the contents in your symphony's lib/vendor/serviceblogging directory. You will also have to add the XML-RPC PEAR package. Download it, extract, then put XML_RPC_x.x.x folder in the servicesblogging directory (there must be a Services folder there) and rename from “XML_RPC_x.x.x” to “XML”

Install

Now, install the package as a symfony plugin. For this, edit the config/ProjectConfiguration.php:

class ProjectConfiguration extends sfProjectConfiguration
{

  static protected $sbLoaded = false;
  
  static public function registerServicesBlogging() {
    if (self::$sbLoaded) {
      return;
    }
    
    set_include_path(sfConfig::get('sf_lib_dir').'/vendor/servicesblogging'
        .PATH_SEPARATOR.get_include_path());
    require_once sfConfig::get('sf_lib_dir').'/vendor/servicesblogging/Services/Blogging.php';
    self::$sbLoaded = true;
  }

  public function setup()
  {
  }
}

Enjoy

Now in your php code you can do the following to add a new post:

    $bl = Services_Blogging::factory(
        "LiveJournal",
        "username", "password",
        "http://livejournal.com",
        "/interface/xmlrpc");
        
    $post = $bl->createNewPost();
    $post->title = $title;
    $post->content = $text;
    $bl->savePost($post);

Disable Auto-formatting

A little something for livejournal users: you can disable auto-formatting if you pass a special parameter to livejournal XML-RPC service. To do this the dirty, way, edit Services/Blogging/Driver/LiveJournal.php file of the Services_Blogging package.

Specifically, in the the Driver.savePost() method, add props parameter to the RPC call value:

...
            $value = new XML_RPC_Value(
    array(
        'username'       => $this->userdata['rpc_user'],
        'auth_method'    => new XML_RPC_Value('challenge', 'string'),
        'auth_challenge' => new XML_RPC_Value(
            $authdata['challenge'], 'string'
        ),
        'auth_response'  => new XML_RPC_Value(
            $authdata['response'] , 'string'
        ),

        'subject'        => new XML_RPC_Value(
            $post->{Services_Blogging_Post::TITLE}
        ),
        'event'          => new XML_RPC_Value(
            $post->{Services_Blogging_Post::CONTENT}
        ),
        'lineendings'    => new XML_RPC_Value('pc'),

        'year'           => new XML_RPC_Value(date('Y', $time), 'int'),
        'mon'            => new XML_RPC_Value(date('n', $time), 'int'),
        'day'            => new XML_RPC_Value(date('j', $time), 'int'),
        'hour'           => new XML_RPC_Value(date('G', $time), 'int'),
        'min'            => new XML_RPC_Value(date('i', $time), 'int'),
        
        'props'          => new XML_RPC_Value(
            array('opt_preformatted' => new XML_RPC_VALUE(true, 'boolean')),
            'struct'),
    ),
    'struct'
);

...

That's it.