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Next, you'll need to create a form as an Index Template that will be used to post into MT. Here's an example that I use (you will need the CategoryDepth and PerlScript plugins for the subcategory listing)

<form action="<MTBlogURL>xmlrpc.php" method="post" name="xmlrpc"> <table cellspacing="6" cellpadding="6"> <tr> <td><label for="category_id"><strong>Primary Category:</strong><label></td> <td><select name="category_id" id="category_id" tabindex="1"> <option value="" selected="selected">Select</option> <MTSubCategories> <MTPerlScript> print "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"x"<MTCategoryDepth>"."<MTCategoryLabel>"; </MTPerlScript><MTSubCatsRecurse></MTSubCategories> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="title"><strong>Title:</strong></label></td> <td><input name="title" id="title" tabindex="2" value="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="text"><strong>Body:</strong></label></td> <td><input name="text" id="text" tabindex="3" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="text_more"><strong>Description:</strong></label></td> <td><input name="text_more" id="text_more" rows="5" cols="45" tabindex="4" /></td></tr> <tr> <td><input type="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit" /></td> </tr> </table> </form>

Finally, create a new template and call it something like XMLRPC with an output of xmlrpc.php and copy the following code into the template body

<?php $connection = mysql_connect("localhost","DB_USRNAME","DB_PASS") or die ("Couldn't connect to server."); $db = mysql_select_db("DB_DB",$connection) or die("Couldn't connect to database."); include("/path/to/iptracking.php"); ipt_checker("submit_newlink.php"); include("/path/to/IXR_Library.inc.php"); $blog_id = BLOGID; $username = "MYUSERNAME"; $password = "MYPASSWORD"; $content = array('title' => $_POST['title'],'description' => $_POST['text'],'mt_text_more' => $_POST['text_more']); $client = new IXR_Client('http://path/to/mt-xmlrpc.cgi'); $client->query('metaWeblog.newPost', $blog_id, $username, $password, $content, 0); $post_id = $client->getResponse(); $categories = array(array('categoryId' => $_POST['category_id'])); $client->query('mt.setPostCategories', $post_id, $username, $password, $categories); $client->getResponse(); $client->query('mt.publishPost', $post_id, $username, $password); $client->getResponse(); ?>

Plenty to change in this script:

• Replace DB_USRNAME with the username used to connect to the MT mySQL database (same as DBUser in mt.cfg)
• Replace DB_PASS with the password used to connect to the MT mySQL database (same as the contents of mt-db-pass.cgi)
• Replace DB_DB with the name of the database used by MT (the Database variable in mt.cfg)
• Replace BLOGID with the id of the blog you want the entry posted to
• Replace MYUSERNAME with the username used to log into Movable Type
• Replace MYPASSWORD with the password that corresponds with the above username to log into MT
• Change all three /path/to/ with the correct paths to iptracking.php, the IXR_Library and mt-xmlrpc.cgi

With PHP, the variable $_POST grabs details that have been posted to the script. Basically this is what the script does.

1. Connects to the MT database and checks the iptracking table for the current IP
2. If the IP isn't in the table then it runs the script, if the IP is there and the last time the page was requested from the IP is less than the value of $IPT_TF, the script fails
3. The variable $content is populated with the contents of the form
4. A new XMLRPC instance is called
5. The metaWeblog.newPost method is called and the necessary parameters are passed. The entry has not yet been published -- if you want to publish it at this stage change the 0 to a 1
6. On success, the post's ID is captured
7. The post's categories are set and the post is (re)published

More parameters can be passed in $content, created the necessary <input> in the form and then simply add to the $content array using the corresponding parameter name found in the docs For example, if I wanted to also add keywords, I would create a new input perhaps called "keywords" and then my $content would look something like this:

$content = array('title' => $_POST['title'],'description' => $_POST['text'],'mt_text_more' => $_POST['text_more'],'mt_keywords' => $_POST['keywords']);