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I've been all over the place trying to find out how to call the XML-RPC plugin from a client. Specifically, I'm crafting a PHP CLI script that will call the blogger.php plugin in order to submit an article. I know that in the final release of Joomla 1.6, core support for XML-RPC was pulled. However, a plugin was provided. I can't seem to find any documentation on how to use it, though.

Background: I'm converting an all static-content site with about 9,000 articles into a Joomla! site. I tried a standard MYSQL import of the content after I scraped it, but ran into the ACL foreign key changes that I later read about The articles imported just fine. It's just I couldn't view the article unless I went into the article manager, opened it up, and then saved it. I'm guessing it did some re-mapping of jos_content with the ACL table in jos_assets on the save. That was a very important step that I left out, obviously. Anyway, I'm looking for a seamless way to import my scraped content and staying within the boundaries of the Joomla DB standard. The idea for using XML-RPC is to write a script that will upload each article individually. Doing that will enter the article and create a the proper jos_assets entry. I surmised that by viewing the plugins/xmlrpc/blogger.php file (newPost function). It might take a while to do it that way, but I actually don't mind. I want to do some spot-check QC of the articles being imported to make sure they are displaying as expected.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
KP

OK.. I took another look at a document that I had read before. I guess I'm going about this the wrong way. I still want to know what the plugin is for, but for now I can roll out a quick component from one of my shells and accomplish what I want (at least I think I can). For anyone who is in the same boat as me, refer to this page and download the example code at the end of the page:

http://docs.joomla.org/Xml-rpc

Thanks,
KP

I imported into the jos_content with a sql query. The only issue I had, was that I had to specify an author for the article.

Thanks! I don't think that was a field I had populated initially. I will put my id into that field and give it another try. That would probably explain the issues I saw related to jos_assets and ACL.

-KP