James Mok’s Soliloquy

The previous post was sent via a Nokia 6230 phone. The MIDlog JAVA application can be downloaded thru the GetJar site.

MIDlog is a simple application for creating and posting text only blog messages to Movable Type, Blogger, or Generic Blogger API blogs. It is supposed to be able to post to multiple blogs in one single post but I have no way of testing that since I only have this one blog site.

In the setup, MIDlog requires the usual UserID, Password, and URL settings, and also a BlogID setting which is explained here…

“DEFINING A BLOG ID
Defining a blog id may not be necessary if you generated your Net::MovableType object with an rsd.xml file. Otherwise, read on.

As we will see in subsequent sections, most of the MovableType’s methods operate on specific web log. For defining a default web log to operate on, after setting above username and password, you can also set your default blog id using blogId() method:

$mt->blogId(1);To be able to do that, you first need to know your blog id. There are no documented ways of retrieving your blog id, except for investigating the URL of your MovableType account panel. Just login to your MovableType control panel (through mt.cgi script). In the first screen, you should see a list of your web logs. Click on the web log in question, and look at the URL of the current window. In my case, it is:

http://mt.handalak.com/cgi-bin/mt?__mode=menu&blog_id=1Notice blog_id parameter? That’s the one!”

Too bad it does not allow uploading and posting of photos. I’ll see if the web browser application WebViewer allows me to have full access to the MT posting page later.