Zainals Bahrain

got flooded recently with emails requesting a tutorial on how to get wordpress posts into flash , now i dont have enough time to make a tut , but i will go through it in here quickly so pay attention .

Important links :
XML-RPC on Wordpress
XML-RPC home
XML-RPC tutorial press

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Now as far as i remember i downloaded the movable type class from here http://www.dentedreality.com.au/bloggerapi/

download the MTC ( movable type class ) and extract them in your folder on your webspace ( should support php) .

Now open up a new php document call it what ever you want , i called it test.php copy & paste the following code :


include_once("class.mtclient.php");
$username = "USERNAME"; //Blog user name
$password = "PASS"; // Blog Pass
$host = "zainal.wordpress.com"; //change this to your wordpress site
$path = "/xmlrpc.php";//"/path to xmlrpc , keep it as it is , sometimes it needs
// the full path e.g www.abcd.com/blog/xmlrpc.php
// create a new blog
$blog = new mtclient($username, $password, $host, $path);
//get last 6 posts ...
$myBlogs = $blog->getRecentPosts($username , 6);
//cant remember why i kept the counter ….
//OH YA the counter will be used to plot user_data e.g user_data1 , user_data2 , notice the &
// mark below its what flash will read and split data based on ” | ” ….
$counter = 1;
// loop through the MultiD array
for ( $row = 0; $row < 6; $row++ )
{
//At this end you can always Produce XML doc , or as in my case i added "|"
// so i can split Data in flash later on ...
print "&user_data$counter=".$myBlogs[$row][title].'|'.$myBlogs[$row][link];
$counter++;
}
?>


now you can get more than title and link here is an explanation :

/* usage:

requires the following files to be in the same directory:
class.bloggerclient.php
xmlrpc.php

re-implements the following methods with metaWeblog
which returns strings “description”, “link”, and “title”
instead of a single “content” string.

getRecentPosts
getPost
newPost
editPost

also adds the special movabletype methods
which allow category assignment and retrieval
and for listing of supported methods

getCategoryList
getPostCategories
setPostCategories
supportedMethods

example:

include_once(”class.mtclient.php”);

$username = “myusername”;
$password = “mypassword”;
$host = “www.myhost.com”;
$path = “/path/to/mt-xmlrpc.cgi”;

$blog = new mtclient($username, $password, $host, $path);
$myBlogs = $blog->getUsersBlogs();
*/

flash code :

var sender = new LoadVars();
var receiver = new LoadVars();
high= 22;
u = 0;
url = [];
receiver.onLoad = function(ok){
if(ok) {
loader.unloadMovie();
for (var i = 1; i <= 6; ++i)
{
receiver["dataPacket" +i] = receiver["user_data" + i].split("|");
var Ntitle = receiver["dataPacket" + i][0];
url[i] = receiver["dataPacket" + i][1];
trace ("data " + Ntitle);
trace ("data " + url[i]);
trace('attaching');
_root.attachMovie("box", "box" + i, _root.getNextHighestDepth());
_root["box"+i].btn.ID = i;
_root["box"+i].pTitle.text = Ntitle;
_root["box"+i].btn.onPress = function() {
getURL(url[this.ID],_blank);
}
_root["box"+i].btn.onRollOver = function() {
trace('get some');
}
_root["box"+i]._y = 65 +(high * u);
trace('hight ' + (high * u));
_root["box"+i]._x = 0;
u++;
delete receiver["user_data" + i];
}
}
}
sender.sendAndLoad("http://localhost/movabletypeClass/test.php", receiver, "post");


Like i said earlier , you can always produce XML doc from the test.php and read that in flash , there are many ways you can read external files , it all depends on YOU !
Flash & php source files can be downloaded from here …@ ZAINALS