proposal, Services_Blogs

Hi everyone,

my name is Till, I am Berlin-based (Germany) and here is my
proposal
for what I call "Services_Blogs". 

I talked to a couple people on #pearefnet before and from the
feedback I felt this would be a good addition to the PEAR
repository.

*What is the objective of my class?*

The objective is to offer a unified API to create a post on
a blog and
to support all the different blogs out there.

To make posting a bit easier, the class also supports
getting a user's
blogs - for example if he fills multiple.

An example for a complete posting process (if no data is
cached
locally in the app) would be a two stepper. Step #1 would be
to get
the user's blogs and step #2 be choosing one from the list
and then
submitting the post.

*What type of blogs are supported?*

Currently, the class supports Movable Type, blogger.com,
Wordpress,
Lifejournal, Blogspiriti, Drupal's Blog module, Dotclear,
Friendster
and Typepad. I'll be working on others as I run into them.


*Structure*
The class has a hub, which is used on initialize it. The
containers
for the different "types" (of blogs) are then
checked (and included)
and the object is created.

Ideally I would install the hub through PEAR and then one
would need
to install the containers for the different blogs - just
like MDB2
works for different databases.

*Why have so many different containers?*

Well, from my experience blogs can be a bit flakey (read
tricky) even
if they actually use the same API (e.g. MetaWeblog). Most
have their
distinct quirks which is why I decided to break them up into
containers.
In order to not dupe code in the containers, the hub class
provides
all methods so just the workflow of how to get there (= how
to get
your post on your blog) is done in the container for the
blog type.

This release can be considered at least a bit
"hacky" since e.g. it
die()'s if it doesn't find an extension it wants to use
(e.g. I am
using iconv to probably UTF-8 encode). I'll work on that and
see what
other packages use in those cases and probably add some
dependencies
to other PEAR packages.
So even though I know about those, I am of course very open
to every
suggestion anyone might have.

*The goodies!*
Talk is cheap - so here we go.

This is a test page which enables you to post a test to your
blog (I hope):
http://d
ev.lagged.de/Services_Blogs/test.php

(No, I do not log anything done on there.)

If you want to get the code, grab it here:
http://dev.lagged.de/Services_Blogs/2006-11-
22.Services_Blogs.tar.gz


To move forward, I hereby request an account (login: till),
so I can
move my proposal to PEAR's website. If anyone has any
objections,
please let me know. Otherwise I will fill in the form
tomorrow on the
website. 


Best regards,
-- 
Till Klampaeckel
e: mailto:klimponggmail.com
p: +491704018676
l: http://beta.plaze
s.com/whereis/till

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Till,

> my name is Till, I am Berlin-based (Germany) and here
is my proposal
> for what I call "Services_Blogs". 
I already did such a class with drivers for multiple
blogging systems.
Please see the code at:
http://svn.cweiske.de/listing.p
hp?repname=Services_Blogging&path=%2F&sc=0

I also proposed it to PEAR where it was accepted, but I
don't have the
time to maintain it, and I didn't want to put in an
unmaintained package.
http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=400

-- 
Regards/MfG,
Christian Weiske

Hi Christian,

On 11/26/06, Christian Weiske <cweiskecweiske.de> wrote:
> Till,
>
> > my name is Till, I am Berlin-based (Germany) and
here is my proposal
> > for what I call "Services_Blogs". 
> I already did such a class with drivers for multiple
blogging systems.
> Please see the code at:
> http://svn.cweiske.de/listing.p
hp?repname=Services_Blogging&path=%2F&sc=0
>
> I also proposed it to PEAR where it was accepted, but I
don't have the
> time to maintain it, and I didn't want to put in an
unmaintained package.
> http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=400

Strange that I missed that! So what is your proposal?
From what I see, we could merge. I got RSD handled as well,
so we
could check this out.

Cheers,
-- 
Till Klampaeckel
e: mailto:klimponggmail.com
p: +491704018676
l: http://beta.plaze
s.com/whereis/till

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Till,

> Strange that I missed that! So what is your proposal?
> From what I see, we could merge. I got RSD handled as
well, so we
> could check this out.
Take the code and do whatever you want with it. If you can
reuse it,
it's fine so my work finally gets some attention 

-- 
Regards/MfG,
Christian Weiske

On 11/26/06, Christian Weiske <cweiskecweiske.de> wrote:
> > Strange that I missed that! So what is your
proposal?
> > From what I see, we could merge. I got RSD handled
as well, so we
> > could check this out.
> Take the code and do whatever you want with it. If you
can reuse it,
> it's fine so my work finally gets some attention 

Sounds like a plan.  I'll apply
for the account tomorrow and see
what I can adapt.

MfG,
-- 
Till Klampaeckel
e: mailto:klimponggmail.com
p: +491704018676
l: http://beta.plaze
s.com/whereis/till

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