Corruption in HTML after upload to Easyblog from Blogsy using xmlrpc
By Matt McHugh on Thursday, 09 October 2014
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Hi

I am having trouble uploading a blog from Blogsy to Easyblog. This has been working fine, but haven't added a post for a while. I updated Blogsy because it was crashing when I tried to upload a blog. Since then it successfully posts the blog to Easyblog, but it seems to corrupt the HTML in the process. HTML original and modified follows.
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<p>I've been trying to get to <a href="http://www.singleton.nsw.gov.au/Index.aspx?NID=139"; target="_blank" title="">Lake St Clair</a> for a long time. Glenbawn has been a favourite destination for many years with it's excellent camping and good fishing options. Finally got out there for the October long weekend. We didn't do too well on the fishing front, but we did see some nice bass caught from the bank in the campground on worms! Daniel kept us rom getting a group donut by catching a couple of kilos of catfish.</p>

<p> Here is a photo of him putting the finishing touches to it. </p>

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="http://www.macman.id.au/images/easyblog_images/62/Photo-20141009180436.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img src="http://www.macman.id.au/images/easyblog_images/62/Photo-20141009180436.jpg" id="blogsy-1412846025480.8984" class="alignnone" alt="" width="300" height="200"></a></div>
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<p>I've been trying to get to <a class="easyblog-thumb-preview" href="http://www.singleton.nsw.gov.au/Index.aspx?NID=139";><img src="http://www.macman.id.au/images/easyblog_images/62/Photo-20141009180436.jpg" id="blogsy-1412846252839.0464" class="alignnone" alt="" width="300" height="200"></a></div>

This behaviour is reproducible and seems to occur whenever I use a link of the type specified.
Any ideas of what I should try next. I have used links of this type before without any problems, is it a Blogsy issue or an Easyblog issue ?

Regards Matt
Hi Support,

This now appears to be fixed and the blogsy image problem worked around. I still have the problem of posts not publishing, they pick up some weird publish date, but I can live with it. I have asked for it to be fixed before and it was fixed for a short time before reverting behaviour. Thanks for all your help in resolving this

Regards
Matt McHugh
Matt McHugh
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Friday, 24 October 2014 16:03
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Hello Matt McHugh,

Can you provide us with the following information:
1) Joomla backend access
2) FTP access
3) capture a screenshot regarding with your issues (like you mentioned above that html code)
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 09 October 2014 18:02
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Hi details attached, not sure what screenshot best explains the problem, but the code snippet in the first post may ?
Matt McHugh
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Thursday, 09 October 2014 19:36
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Hello Matt McHugh,

I'm really sorry that delayed of this reply,
Can you try put a sample code in your new blog post (publish from the website creation page) so that we can try reproduce this from Ipad?
If you publish a blog post from blogsy, can i see what is that result interface?
Because I will test this when I get the Ipad in my hand.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 10 October 2014 18:59
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Sorry Arlex,

i'm not sure exactly what you are asking ?

Matt
Matt McHugh
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Friday, 10 October 2014 19:20
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Arlex,

What I have done.

copied the HTML from article "Lake St Clair Camping and Fishing Oct Long Weekend" on my Ipad in Blogsy and emailed it to my PC. Then pasted the HTML directly into the article "Matt's test post directly in the Easyblog Web interface"
Then I uploaded from Blogsy to the website.

If you check the two blog entries in Easyblog on my site ( article 1 and 3) , you will see what is happening

Matt
Matt McHugh
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Friday, 10 October 2014 19:39
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Hello Matt McHugh,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.
We are still investigate on this issues, I will get back to us as soon as possible.
Arlex Wong
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Sunday, 12 October 2014 20:30
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Any chance of an update on this ? One of the attractions of easyblog for me was the easy integration with Blogsy and the ability to blog from Ipad. At the moment I am having trouble with all blogging from Blogsy via the Ipad to Easyblog. The original problem was with links, so I tried to post an article without links. I posted an article with 4 different images, but when it uploads it only refernces the first image and repeats the image 4 times.


Regards

Matt
Matt McHugh
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Thursday, 16 October 2014 07:51
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hello Matt McHugh,

I'm really sorry that delayed of this reply,
To clarify again with your current 2 issues:
#1. When you publish a blog post with a link, then the HTML messed up.
#2. Do you mean that when you trying to upload 4 different images then it repeat the image? Is it this blog post are you mentioned? Check my screenshot below.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 16 October 2014 17:18
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Yes that is the blog post, but I manually repeated it in easyblog&controller directly in Joomla after ftping the files directly.

Matt
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Thursday, 16 October 2014 18:58
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Hello Matt McHugh,

I'm really sorry that delayed of this reply,
I have tried to configure your site details in my blogsy apps, it seems like not working.
By the way, I have test in my locally, I can replicate this issues If i post 3 image, then it show in Easyblog only 1 image, another 2 image is same as the first image. I'm still investigate on this.

Regarding with your first issues :
>> Is it highlight the word and configure the link? Check my screenshot below.
>> Because it seems like work fine for me. Maybe i missing something here. Please advise.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 17 October 2014 22:51
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The problem is when the link is BEFORE the image. If the link follows the image it's all OK.

Matt
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Sunday, 19 October 2014 10:53
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Hello Matt McHugh,

I'm really sorry that delayed of this reply, I have using different 3rd party remote publishing and check is it all having the same issues if post multiple image. But it look like only blogsy got this issues, check my screenshot below regarding if using Windows live writers and ScribeFire test on this. Did you consult with blogsy developer regarding this? because we are still investigate on this.
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014 01:09
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I will set up live writer and do some tests myself. I will also test the link issue. I was having trouble getting live writer set up , gives me an error 407. This is getting more and more painful.

Matt
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014 07:59
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Hello Matt McHugh,

I'm really sorry that made you felt trouble with this

We will try our best to assist you with this, after debugging long time ago, it seems like the blogsy always get the same name of the photo when doing each time ajax request. So it will show the same image with this, this issues only happening post via blogsy

Can you try download my attachment file and replace in this file and see how it goes?
What we did is include the code to define the minute and second in the file name when blogsy upload the image to server.
JoomlaFolder\components\com_easyblog\controllers\xmlrpc.php

If you would like to test in Windows live writer, you can follow our documentation, hope this help.
-> http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/how-tos/setting-up-windows-live-writer
Summary :


Web address of your blog : http://yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&controller=xmlrpc

Username : your username

Password : your userpassword

select provider : metaWebBlog or Wordpress 2.2+

Remote posting web address for your blog : http://yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&controller=xmlrpc

Almost end of the step part you need to select "NO" option.
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:27
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OK I have done two posts from Live writer as you can see. The first is one with a link BEFORE text and an image. For some reason the image is the only thing that gets published, this is clearly easily reproducible. The second post in the blog is multiple images, and works as expected. IE the multiple post issue is only evident from Blogsy.
Not sure what you want me to do with the php file, ftp it to my site ?

I have an attachment, you can see what I posted and the results.

Matt
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014 18:01
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hello Matt McHugh,

Sorry for late reply to this, I have help you replace the fix file in JoomlaFolder\components\com_easyblog\controllers\xmlrpc.php
So you can post multiple image file from your blogsy now.

Regarding the link issues :
>> Actually I'm still not get you here, because I have tried to post a test post including the link, it seems like work fine for me, when i click on that link it will open a new window and access the URL what i configure before. Check my screenshot below.
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 22 October 2014 00:08
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Please understand me, I have said this a number of times, the link MUST be BEFORE the images, ie preceding, come in front of, like in the attachment I sent you.
Matt.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2014 04:32
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Hello Matt,

I'm really sorry that keep misunderstood your issues.

Anyway, I have applied some fix in this file -> JoomlaFolder\components\com_easyblog\controllers\xmlrpc.php

Please have a try publish a blog post again and see how it goes?
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:56
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Hi Arlex,

I will test this when I get access to the iPad again. The guys at blogsy found the multiple image bug, due to change in apple handling of time stamps.they will fix in next release.

Thanks
Matt McHugh
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Friday, 24 October 2014 05:00
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Hi Matt,

Thanks for the heads up on the blogsy bug and sure, do let us know if you still having issue with the links issue and we will be happy to assist you again.

Have a nice day!
Sam
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Friday, 24 October 2014 12:19
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Hello Matt McHugh,

You're welcome, by the way thanks for reporting on this.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 24 October 2014 16:08
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