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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
Bloke wrote #323398:
anyone got a simple 1-2-3 of setting up MarsEdit with Txp?
System: Other
System AI: Movable Type API
Endpoint: http://[URL]/rpc/
Blog ID: In my case, it’s ‘essays’ because that’s the section I’m using for my blog
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
mistersugar wrote #323406:
System: Other System AI: Movable Type API [snip]
Thank you, that worked a treat. And it worked perfectly with the patched version of Txp 4.8.1-dev. Steps to success:
- Update server to the latest bleeding edge code obtained from GitHub.
- Ensure /rpc directory is uploaded to the server (doofus Stef forgot this and wondered why it was throwing errors).
- Ensure Enable XML-RPC server is switched on in Preferences->Admin.
- Configure MarsEdit as mistersugar advises above.
- Hit Refresh to obtain a list of articles from the chosen section. Edit and push at will.
EDIT: I’m actually astounded/pleasantly surprised it still works – and works well – after all these years! I suspect it’ll be a different story when unlimited custom fields and unlimited cats/keywords hit core, though.
EDIT 2: Didn’t have any luck with Ecto. It kept reporting that the data returned form the server was in the incorrect/unexpected format regardless of which system I tried: MovableType, MovableType 4, WordPress, Blogger, Atom, MetaWeblog, …
Last edited by Bloke (2020-05-29 15:58:14)
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
Bloke wrote #323408:
it worked perfectly with the patched version of Txp 4.8.1-dev.
Good news! Why Pete’s version was complaining then, is your php <7.2?
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
etc wrote #323410:
Good news! Why Pete’s version was complaining then, is your php <7.2?
Yes. I’m running PHP 5.5.38. Next test is to up that to PHP 7 and fix the fallout.
Wait, no, I was running 7.2.28 all along. I was looking at my MAMP server not live server diagnostics, duh.
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
Seems to work fine under the following:
Textpattern version: 4.8.1-dev (7aef1314389fea239e1a77a57b29d78b)
Last update: 2020-05-29 09:36:05/2020-05-29 09:34:36
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PHP version: 7.2.28-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1Maybe it’s something in a higher version where they’ve changed what count() expects?
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
I’ve just run a test from MarsEdit to the dev-demo server. I published a new article just fine. PHP version: 7.4.6.
Why is it working for me and not others?
EDIT: Or maybe it doesn’t work for PHP <7.something? @mistersugar, what’s your Txp Diagnostics say, version-wise?
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
Bloke, if the RPC system’s TXP_RPCServer.php uses $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, then: PHP.net says that is deprecated.
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Can’t see anything obvious in the subsequent PHP changelogs to indicate a bug that might be causing this behaviour. If it works fine on 7.2.28 and fine on 7.4.6, why not on 7.3.16? Short of a PHP bug, that really only leaves some sort of server issue.
When you said in your OP “my host (OpalStack) switched me to a new server” I wonder if there’s something not compiled or missing? Or some configuration issue. I’m also slightly concerned by: “Txp Diagnostics showing no errors (except for all the update files as modified).”
Did you make those changes to the update files? If you upload the latest bleeding edge code form GitHub, do those messages go away?
Too many variables here right now, we need to narrow them down.
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
kuopassa wrote #323420:
if the RPC system’s TXP_RPCServer.php uses
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, then: PHP.net says that is deprecated.
True. We seem to be covered in the constructor (I hope):
function __construct()
{
global $enable_xmlrpc_server, $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA;
if (!$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA) {
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents('php://input');
}
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
Success! MarsEdit works again with Txp v4.8.1-dev. Thanks a million for resolving this.
My Diagnostics pre-flight check only warns that I am using a dev version. Is it safe for me to continue with v4.8.1-dev on my live site, or should I roll back?
Last edited by mistersugar (2020-05-29 23:56:02)
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
Yay! This RPC issue, now resolved, is the green light for 4.8.1 so you’re effectively using the stable version, albeit not tagged as such.
Unless we find anything deal breaking, I’d expect a final release over the weekend.
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Re: MarsEdit error: mt.getCategoryList
Hello! Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I wondered if anyone had figured out how to add custom fields to MarsEdit? I’v tried adding using both my own name (“external-url”) as well as custom_1_set, which is what I managed to glean from the database. (I’m not exactly an expert on this). Has anyone had any luck with this? Thanks for any input. (From what I understand, xml-prc is on its way out, but I still like using MarsEdit, but until that point…)
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