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Good news for Blogger Beta users, now Ngeblog can be used to manipulate your blog entry. 🙂

If you’re using previous version of Ngeblog, don’t worry, you still can use all the methods as before, only now you can do more. Especially if you’re using Blogger in beta version.

As usual, i’m going to blab on a bit about this newest version, so if you can’t wait any longer to play around with it (i know some of you are like that) just go here and try it out yourself.

Ok, here are some additional features in Ngeblog 0.1 :

ClientLogin Authentication

As clearly stated in Blogger Data API documentation, now ClientLogin authentication can be used for both versions of Blogger. That surely makes our lives easier.

Unfortunately, previous version of Ngeblog still used BasicAuth for its authentication method, which is only valid for current version of Blogger, not for Blogger currently in beta . That’s why you need to download Ngeblog ver. 0.1 to be able to access Blogger in Beta version.

In implementation case, there’s nothing new in Ngeblog. You put some parameters (username and password) in constructor to connect to Blogger, like this:

<?php

  $username = "yourusername";
  $password = "yourpassword";

  $myblog = new Ngeblog($username,$password);
  $bloginfo = $myblog->getBlogInfo();
  print_r($bloginfo);

?>

Only now, Ngeblog will try to detect whether you’re trying to connect to current version of Blogger or beta version. And all authentication is done using Google ClientLogin method.

Multiple Blogs Shorthand

As i mentioned in previous post, Blogger allows you to have more than one blog per account, and each blog has its own Blog ID. Ngeblog supports multiple blogs access by defining which blog ID are you trying to access.

Thanks to Bill, now you don’t have to carry Blog ID in all methods like before, you just need to define it once in constructor, like this:

  $username = "yourusername";
  $password = "yourpassword";
  $blogid   = "81928938";

  $myblog = new Ngeblog($username,$password,$blogid);

then the rest of methods will assume you’re manipulating blog ID 81928938 without having to define it in all methods. For example to add new post, you just have to write something like this,

  $title   = "My Title";
  $content = "My content for this blog";

  $myblog->newPost($title,$content);

If you need to switch to another blog in the middle of your scripts, use setActiveBlog() method, like this:

  $anotherblogid  = "84748478";
  $anothertitle   = "My Title for another blog";
  $anothercontent = "My content for another blog";

  $myblog->setActiveBlog($anotherblogid);
  $myblog->newPost($anothertitle,$anothercontent);

Tester

Enough talks, if you still can’t understand what i’m talking about here, check out the tester here, i build it with Ngeblog 0.1. Just enter your username and password whether for current version or beta version of Blogger.

What is Ngeblog? A nice guy from phpclasses has made great description for me,

This class can be used to manipulate Blogger blogs using the GData, the Google Data API.

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You can download the newest files here. I included some example files there.

There are some dramatic changes i made for this version, including methodes naming and code beautification. Hopefully, with this new codes, it will be easy to extends it in the future.

So, if you happened to use the older version, you should make some changes too. Here are the newest howto’s,

Get an entry

<?php

  require_once "Ngeblog.php";

  $myblog = new Ngeblog("yourusername","yourpassword");

  $entryid = 116086097264268587;  // entry ID you want to get
  $res = $my blog->getPost($entryid);

  echo "<pre>";
  print_r($res);
  echo "</pre>";

?>

Get list of entries

<?php

  require_once "Ngeblog.php";

  $myblog = new Ngeblog("yourusername","yourpassword");

  $res = $myblog->getPosts(1,5);  // this will get five entries from first index

  echo "<pre>";
  print_r($res);
  echo "</pre>";

?>

Post a new entry

<?php

  require_once "Ngeblog.php";

  $myblog = new Ngeblog("yourusername","yourpassword");

  $title  = "This is my title";
  $msg    = "<p>This is your <i>content</i></p>";

  if ( $myblog->newPost($title,$msg) ) {
    echo "posting success";
  } else {
    echo "posting failed";
  }

?>

Delete an entry

<?php

  require_once 'Ngeblog.php';

  $myblog = new Ngeblog("yourusername","yourpassword");

  $entryid = '116086019043835900'; // the entry id to be deleted

  if ( $myblog->deletePost($entryid) ) {
    echo "The entry with id $entryid has been deleted";
  }

?>

Update an entry

<?php

  require_once "Ngeblog.php";

  $myblog = new Ngeblog("yourusername","yourpassword");

  $entryid  = "116148936968661097"; // entry ID you want to update
  $newtitle    = "My New Title";
  $newmsg      = "<p>This is your <i>content</i></p>";

  if ( $myblog->editPost($entryid,$newtitle,$newmsg) ) {
    echo "Updating entry $entryid success";
  } else {
    echo "Updating failed";
  }

?>