Ecto is Busted in WordPress 2.1

Last week I took this site to WordPress 2.1 and much to my dismay realized that Ecto, my favorite XMLRPC blogging client no longer worked. It would let me post, but it was never able to update the category information for posts… It just hung with no error. I looked into it, and found out that Ecto expects the category information to be returned as a string, not an int.

Adriaan, the developer of Ecto is blaming WordPress, while I’m sure the folks at Automattic would call it an Ecto problem… That’s just how these things tend to work. Anyhow, it’s pretty easy to fix if you make this quick change to xmlrpc.php.

Simply change this on line 180:

'categoryId' => $catid,

To this:

'categoryId' => (string) $catid,

Hopefully someone will go back to their code tree and make a permanent fix so we don’t have to constantly edit this file every time we upgrade.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 12:08 pm and is filed under Data and Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Erik J. Barzeski

Jan 30th

To be exact, it is an Automattic issue and a bug as the spec clearly calls for a string, not an int.

Still, ecto COULD be more forgiving, as MarsEdit still worked despite the incorrect data type.
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Arjun Muralidharan

Feb 16th

Thank you so much! I thought I wasted mymoney on ecto but now it seems like this solves my issues with this app!
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Preston Stone

Feb 28th

Just a quick note: in my copy of xmlrpc.php, this correction had to be made on line 980, not line 180.
topher

Mar 18th

Thanks for the tip! I love Ecto and I love WordPress, and I was so bummed when they stopped playing nice with each other.
Michael

Apr 12th

You know that thing about sense of humour.
If you ain’t got it then you won’t get it.
Keep it up…
Alvaro

Apr 12th

Thank you very much! you saved me from using the text editor in wordpress!!
seo

Feb 5th

Thanks ypou for tht man!
üsküdar evden eve nakliyat

Dec 16th

I love Ecto and I love WordPress, and I was so bummed when they stopped playing nice with each other.
evden eve

Mar 24th

Thanks Admin
bosch servisi

Sep 8th

thanks for information

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