Using Windows Live Writer With LifeType (Tutorial)

[spollo]

Here is a short tutorial on how to setup Windows Live Writer for use with LifeType.

http://omar.spollo.com/blog.php/2007/03 ... r-with-lt/

Regards

[phunkphorce]

Is it working fine? I remember there was an issue logged in Mantis regarding WLW and getting the list of categories from the blog via the metaWeblog API:

http://bugs.lifetype.net/view.php?id=1094

Do you have the same issue?

[spollo]

You are correct and I even didn't realize about it! I post to my blog using a Mac and Ecto, so I never really use WLW.

[phunkphorce]

As you can see, we haven't fixed it yet...

[ailon]

I was able to fix the category listing problem by modifying metaWeblogGetCategories method in class/net/xmlrpc/xmlrpcserver.class.php like this:

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            foreach($cats as $cat)
            {
                $dummy                   = array();
                /* changes by ailon for Windows Live Writer */
                $dummy["categoryId"]    = $cat->getId();
                $dummy["categoryid"]    = $cat->getId();
                $dummy['categoryName'] = $cat->_name;
                $dummy['description'] = $cat->_name;
                $dummy['title'] = $cat->_name;
               
                //$dummy["description"]    = $cat->getDescription();
               
                   // disable the generation of xhtml content or else the IXR_XMLRPC library will
                   // escape things twice!
                $url->setXHTML( false );
               
                $dummy["htmlUrl"]        = "http://";//$url->categoryLink( $cat );
                $dummy["rssUrl"]         = "http://";
                //$ret[$cat->getName()]    = $dummy;
                $ret[]    = $dummy;
                /* end changes by ailon for Windows Live Writer */
            }


Some of the changes might be excessive but I had no time to find a minimum changes solution. Basicly changing $ret[$cat->getName()] = $dummy; to $ret[] = $dummy; made the categories apear.

[msudawwg]

I'm having problems configuring my Windows Live Writer with Lifetype...Why doesn't the link to the tutorial work?

[hyedipin]

Hello, can anyone provide a solution for live writer to work without any problems? I like lifetype but I would like to be able to post remotely. Above link is no longer alive.

[newtech1]

I have a client wanting to use Windows Live Writer. Has anyone resolved this issue?

[newtech1]

Have another cliend that wants to use Windows Live Writer-Anyone getting it to work properly with LifeType?