Update to Nokia Lifeblog/WordPress Tool

Some time ago, I found a script that allowed you to post to a WordPress blog from Nokia’s Lifeblog/Online Share application. I hacked it to make it work and made it available for all to see and use. The biggest request I had with it: add support for posting videos.

I had to fix a couple of problems brought on by WordPress 2.3 (database schema changed) as well as a couple of other issues I hadn’t accounted for. The end result: a version of the tool that works on WordPress 2.3 and theoretically supports posting videos. I had mixed results myself, but give it a try and let me know how it works. All the details for how to use this script are in the old post, which has been updated with this information as well as a Known Issues list.

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Hi Phoneboy,

How are you going with wordpress 2.3.1 and the Nokia N-series on lifeblogging? I still haven’t been able to get through the “item is to be posted” mentioning on the phone. How are your experiences with it?
All settings are okay and tried several versions of lifeblog.php.

Kind regards.

ivan
ivan@luna.nl

1. Ivan on December 28th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Hi Colbert,

No thats not the problem. That was the first time but the file gets there, thats not the problem. But it goes wrong somewhere between putting the file there by the phone and doing something else (writing the blog and ending the transmission with the phone???
Because the phone keeeps saying item will be posted/is to be posted. Normale it does say that but after 10 seconds that dissapear but now it doesnt.

Ivan

2. Ivan van Beek on November 27th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Looks like the Wordpress upload directory is not writable. You can use your FTP program and right click on the upload dir and make it writable (755)

It should be somewhere at
/home/yourBLOG/www/wp-content

2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: filetype: .jpg
2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: error: Wordpress upload directory is not writable
2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: method: POST

3. colbert low on November 27th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Hi Phoneboy,

I am sorry but after 2 full days looking for the answer, the only resting me was contacting you.

For half a year i was using lifeblog from suppengabel and wordpress in working order, but from one day on another it wasnot working anymore.

Soooo i found your lifeblog.php and i switched to wordpress 2.3.1. No i dont have that strange error on the password and login anymore but another one i cant find the solution for.

when posting my phone keeps saying (from dutch to english: item will be posted/is to be posted 1/1
then i take a look in de wp-content/uploads i see the picture uploaded (i can even download and see it). but it will not be posted on my blog.
everything is oke, password en login are the same on my phone, lifeblog.php and in wordpress (all the same).
in earlier days there was also a thumbnail in the same directory but not anymore. the same errors i also had in 2.3 before switching to 2.3.1
i made the name of the category the same as i have in my blog with a post under it.

I use a nokia n95 with firmware V12.0.013
wordpress is version 2.3.1 (the latest)
atomdata.txt is attached.

I hope you can help me out it drives me crazy, there has to be a solution Hope you can help me.

Kind regards,

Ivan

2007-11-25T11:44:09Z: method: GET
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2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: error: Wordpress upload directory is not writable
2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: method: POST
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2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Je
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2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: method: POST
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5. Ivan van Beek on November 27th, 2007 at 4:46 am
wow, this script works. I can now upload via my N95 to my blog. Thanks for the help !

10. colbert on October 15th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

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