On Sep 8, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Paul McKellar wrote:
> so i've been playing with typo and the stopdesign guy's idea
> http://www.stopdesign.com/ of having photon export iphoto picture
> directly to typo via MT api. but something seems to be dying when
> the plug creates a new catagory, (i want a new category based on the
> album title) so that i can list categories and get albums lists (with
> image counts) is anyone having trouble with the add category MT api?
> i can add categories from the website, and select them via the plug
> in. just not from the plug in.
>
> - summery of the idea follows for those interested in the bigger
> sense -
>
> and then i htink it should just be a matter of some css and views
> controllers tailoring to get a good looking photo album.
>
> new post for each image. categories are albums (or maybe keywords in
> iphoto but i don't like labels as much although that is a better
> match). makes for easy posting of lots of images (resizing and posting
> is already built, along with comments syncing between iphoto and blog
> as of posting time)
We don't currently support any APIs for creating new categories.
It's probably easy enough to add them, but I can't see a
'createCategory' or similar API listed in either the MT or MetaWebLog
API docs.
Can you tell us which API the Photon plugin is trying to use? If you
could find an API description, that'd be great, but even name is
better then nothing.
Scott
From justus at ryoohki.net Thu Sep 8 11:36:03 2005
From: justus at ryoohki.net (Justus Pendleton)
Date: Thu Sep 8 11:26:06 2005
Subject: [typo] typo
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> We don't currently support any APIs for creating new categories. It's
> probably easy enough to add them, but I can't see a 'createCategory' or
> similar API listed in either the MT or MetaWebLog API docs.
>
> Can you tell us which API the Photon plugin is trying to use? If you
> could find an API description, that'd be great, but even name is better
> then nothing.
After quick glance at the Photon code it doesn't look like it is using
any kind of API. It knows about a couple of blog systems -- MT,
TypePad, Photopia, Wordpress, and Blojsom -- and hand crafts a URL
specific to that system to create a category. It has a hardcoded method
when dealing with MT to login and then create a URL of the form:
__mode=save_cat&blog_id=XX&category-new=XX&category-new-parent-0=XX
If my understanding is correct, Photon won't ever work with Typo unless
Photon is changed. (Or, I guess, Typo is changed to accept the above
strange URL and do something useful with it.)
From justus at ryoohki.net Thu Sep 8 11:39:57 2005
From: justus at ryoohki.net (Justus Pendleton)
Date: Thu Sep 8 11:29:56 2005
Subject: [typo] Third-party plugins
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Trejkaz wrote:
> Some might though, so is there a noteworthy location for dropping new text
> filters, sidebars and themes?
It seems like you haven't received any other ideas but my suggestion, at
least in the short term, is the wiki. Create a page ThirdPartyPlugins
or some such and attach files to it.
From mike at uwmike.com Thu Sep 8 11:36:48 2005
From: mike at uwmike.com (Mike Purvis)
Date: Thu Sep 8 11:32:19 2005
Subject: [typo] typo
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Paul McKellar wrote:
>so i've been playing with typo and the stopdesign guy's idea
>http://www.stopdesign.com/ of having photon export iphoto picture
>directly to typo via MT api.
>
I'm very interested in this idea, but there isn't currently anything
quite like Photon for Picasa. (Once I can afford it, I'll have a
powerbook...)
In terms of having a separated gallery and blog, are you just installing
two instances of Typo? I noticed (#343) is "Multi-blog support." Will
this be implemented in a way similar to the way Textpattern does
"sections"? That would be an extremely powerful and welcome addition to
the software.
For the uninitiated, Textpattern lets you break a site into sections, so
that permalinks look like "section/article" or "section/y/m/d/article".
This makes it super-easy to have multiple "blogs" for a gallery,
portfolio, about-pages, etc.
I probably would be using Textpattern, except that I caught the
Rails-bug, and TxP's database layout is a little bit ludicrous.
Mike
From socialmoth.blog at gmail.com Thu Sep 8 11:52:05 2005
From: socialmoth.blog at gmail.com (Paul McKellar)
Date: Thu Sep 8 11:45:03 2005
Subject: [typo] typo
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well it is open sourced, so it is possible, but of course actual code
is more impressive i guess.
i couldn't find any "add category" api information as scott suggested.
which is slightly weird that it is implemented. i'm going to email
the guy and see if he can suggest why he choose that format. unless i
can find some better api docs for some of these more obscure ones.
On 9/8/05, Justus Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We don't currently support any APIs for creating new categories. It's
> > probably easy enough to add them, but I can't see a 'createCategory' or
> > similar API listed in either the MT or MetaWebLog API docs.
> >
> > Can you tell us which API the Photon plugin is trying to use? If you
> > could find an API description, that'd be great, but even name is better
> > then nothing.
>
> After quick glance at the Photon code it doesn't look like it is using
> any kind of API. It knows about a couple of blog systems -- MT,
> TypePad, Photopia, Wordpress, and Blojsom -- and hand crafts a URL
> specific to that system to create a category. It has a hardcoded method
> when dealing with MT to login and then create a URL of the form:
>
> __mode=save_cat&blog_id=XX&category-new=XX&category-new-parent-0=XX
>
> If my understanding is correct, Photon won't ever work with Typo unless
> Photon is changed. (Or, I guess, Typo is changed to accept the above
> strange URL and do something useful with it.)
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