{"id":182,"date":"2007-10-19T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/2007\/10\/atom_posting_to_movable_type-shtml\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T17:02:40","slug":"atom_posting_to_movable_type-shtml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/atom_posting_to_movable_type-shtml\/","title":{"rendered":"Atom Posting To Movable Type"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nFor the Q Awards 2007<\/a>, we wanted to have minute by minute blogging.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"q<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nWe used Movable Type<\/a> for the website, but didn’t want to have to rely on having a laptop available to blog from, so blogging from a mobile phone was the approach we took.\n<\/p>\n

\nOriginally we looked at Twitter<\/a> for this, but we worried about connection speed. We also looked at Nokia Lifeblog<\/a>, while good, it doesn’t really allow for just headline posting. Finally, we took the custom code approach.\n<\/p>\n

\nMovable Type has an Atom<\/a> interface, it’s what Nokia Lifeblog uses. This lets us post articles, so all we needed was a suitable client. Thankfully, using Perl<\/a>, there is XML::Atom::Client<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nBen Hammersley provides an great tutorial on using the Atom API in Movable Type<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nMy code needed to take a line of text and post automatically to Movable Type in a certain category (called “livefeed”). I built a really simple HTML page that could be used by any internet enabled phone. It had one text box and one submit button. Copy entered here and submitted would appear in the Movable Type blog automatically.\n<\/p>\n

\nI needed some glue Perl code behind this page to make this happen. It turned out to be really simple, and here’s the core functionality. I won’t bore you with CGI handling or display code, just the Atom meat.\n<\/p>\n

my $api = XML::Atom::Client->new;
\n$api->username($username);
\n$api->password($password);
\nmy $dc = XML::Atom::Namespace->new(dc => 'http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/');
\nmy $entry = XML::Atom::Entry->new;
\n$entry->title($title);
\n$entry->content('');
\n$entry->set($dc, 'subject', 'livefeed');
\nmy $edituri = $api->createEntry($posturl, $entry);
\nif ($edituri) {
\n## posted ok
\n} else {
\n## not posted, $api->errstr has the error message;
\n}
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nThis code assumes you have a few variables in place, those are\n<\/p>\n