MySpace Crossposter v2.0a Released
September 11th, 2007 by Roderick Russell
Version 2.0a of the surprisingly popular WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter plugin is now released.
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The old project page for all 1.x versions is located here.
What It Does
The WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter is a WordPress plugin that publishes all of your WordPress blog entries to your MySpace blog at the time of publication. This allows you to publish as usual on your WordPress blog, but to also capture and retain your MySpace audience without any extra effort.
Each time that a new WordPress post goes live it will automatically be sent to MySpace for publication.
Users of the plugin have the option of publishing a notification or a whole story to MySpace.
Notification-style crossposting is the default, which will alert readers of your MySpace blog that you have a new story and provide links back to your WordPress blog. This serves to drive traffic to your WordPress blog and is the recommended option. This options also allows you to avoid many of the MySpace page formatting issues.
Users that select the whole story option will have the entire story crossposted to their MySpace blog for readers to view without leaving MySpace.
The project is the same. The code is evolved.
What’s New in v2.0a
-Many users had trouble installing the original plugin due to the fact that the installation procedure did not make use of the standard WordPress plugin activation process. To help alleviate the problem, v2.0a is activated via the WordPress Plugins Management screen.
-All setup is now handled within WordPress itself directly from the Options > MySpace Crossposter screen.
-All code has been condensed to one file.
-Nothing needs to be modified to initiate the code after it is activated and configured. When you post, it posts. Simple as that.
Installation Instructions
As with most plugins, simply download the source file, place the plugin into your wp-content > plugins directory, activate the plugin on the Plugins admin panel and configure on the Options panel. That’s it. For more information see WordPress.org’s Managing Plugins page.
Quick and Dirty FAQ
When will the plugin update MySpace?
As soon as your story is published. That is, when you click “Publish” and it goes live on your WordPress blog.
What if I set the post to automatically publish sometime in the future? When will MySpace be updated?
When the story goes live on your WordPress blog.
Will the MySpace Crossposter update MySpace when I edit an already published post?
No. The only time the story will be crossposted in on the first publication.
MySpace didn’t update. Why not?
Of course, there could be a million reasons. Assuming that you configured the plugin properly with all the correct information, the #1 reason that MySpace doesn’t update with this plugin is because MySpace was down/not working/under maintenance/otherwise screwed up at the time that you published.
Will my post still be published on my WordPress blog even if MySpace is down?
Yes.
I published my post but MySpace was down, how can I get the crosspost onto MySpace when it’s back up?
Unfortunately at this time, the only way to do so is to delete the live story from your WordPress blog and to republish it.
I get a white screen with errors on it when I click publish. What’s wrong?
What do the errors say? They are usually pretty descriptive. The #1 problem is an invalid MySpace username and password. Double check all of your settings - typos, wrong info, caps lock, etc…
The system seems to hang/take-forever-to-load when I click publish. Why?
If this happens, it’s likely that your database server is not responding properly. It could be down or timing out connections, or you may have the wrong server information in your settings.
I am trying to post the Whole Blog Entry but nothing is showing up on MySpace.
Does the Notification Style work fine? If so, it’s a problem with the code not responding well to your content (we’re on it - debugging in process). If not, then there’s probably a greater underlying issue - start with confirming your setup information.
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September 11th, 2007 at Sep 11, 07 | 11:59 pm
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September 12th, 2007 at Sep 12, 07 | 12:47 am
Woohoo.. thanks so much! and how lucky am I to check this on the day it comes out?
September 12th, 2007 at Sep 12, 07 | 5:55 am
Hi, thanks for the new version. I installed it today and we will see tomorrow :-) Best wishes, Daniel
September 13th, 2007 at Sep 13, 07 | 3:59 am
Thanks for the great work.
September 13th, 2007 at Sep 13, 07 | 4:06 am
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September 13th, 2007 at Sep 13, 07 | 9:29 pm
Can’t get it to work i have tried all versions no errors are given even on previous versions but still no posting to myspace
September 13th, 2007 at Sep 13, 07 | 9:59 pm
I get a error that says could not connect although all my login info is correct i have tried my database and myspace manually. For my db host i use localhost should i be using something different. Thats how i have it setup for wordpress
September 13th, 2007 at Sep 13, 07 | 10:17 pm
Jordan - Chances are good that you’ll have to explicitly declare your database server name. Though you didn’t mention if the error says that you “couldn’t connect to database” or if it says “couldn’t log in to MySpace”.
Also, in listing the database name, make sure that you do *not* put in “http://” or any trailing /’s.
For troubleshooting purposes, keep the Post Style set to “n”, at least until you get it working.
September 14th, 2007 at Sep 14, 07 | 4:09 pm
the error i get doesn’t specify it joes says “can not connect” when i deactivate the plugin i no longer get that error. Please email me if you have a chance to look at it from the administrator sides. Thanks for your quick responses
September 14th, 2007 at Sep 14, 07 | 6:44 pm
Well i figured out the first problem. the databse host name is Localhost with a capital L not localhost. However i get no errors and nothing is posted to my myspace. any ideas?
September 15th, 2007 at Sep 15, 07 | 7:01 pm
when i try to post i get:
Warning: mysql_data_seek() [function.mysql-data-seek]: Offset -1 is invalid for MySQL result index 56 (or the query data is unbuffered)
and
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
help?
September 18th, 2007 at Sep 18, 07 | 9:59 pm
Eh well I had no luck getting it to work on my old wordpress install, I’ve messed with it a lot and thought I might have had something to do with it. So I installed a fresh one (to test with) today, Wordpress 2.2.2. Everything is pretty much at the defaults, minus the name of the blog and such, no other plug-ins are activated. It isn’t working, here is a copy and paste of the page I get after publishing the post
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We’re sorry but an error has occured, please check your user name and password. If you are sure this is correct this may be due to myspace, please try again later. if you continue to recieve this error please contact the developers with the following information : your name and email, what function you were attempting to use, page that error occured.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/theweazu/public_html/vfs4/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:236) in /home/theweazu/public_html/vfs4/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 331
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I don’t believe this was the exact error I was receiving before. Anyway I would be happy to help you solve anything by offering my role as being a test monkey.
September 19th, 2007 at Sep 19, 07 | 3:42 am
Zee - Looks like there’s a problem with your MySpace user and pass. Could be that MySpace was having its own trouble at that moment. However, if you could log into your database and confirm that the table names match the ones listed in your plugin setup, that they are the only instance of the wordpress tables and that the data is actually contained in the database, that would rule out any problem on your end and definitely point to MySpace as the culprit.
Just to confirm - you say that everything is “pretty much at the defaults” - please tell me that you did actually input and save your MySpace login information. I know it sounds like a stupid question, on par with the old “did you check the power cable” question, but all bases need to be covered.
September 19th, 2007 at Sep 19, 07 | 3:11 pm
My crossposting to my myspace is not working. I get no errors but nothing posts to my myspace account Do you know of any solution? I know my passwords and logins are all correct because I am able to login into both wordpress and myspace manually? Any help would be greatly appreciated. This plugin is exactly what i’ve been looking for
September 19th, 2007 at Sep 19, 07 | 6:34 pm
sorry about not being clear. I do have the myspace crosspost plug-in completely setup, I was referring to the rest of the fresh wordpress install. I’ll check the database
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I checked the database. The wp_posts looks good, all the posts I attempted are there. Here is a screenshot from phpmyadmin
http://bayimg.com/oAhfhAabb
I’m not really sure what I’m looking for in the wp_postmeta, so again, screenshot
http://bayimg.com/OAhFNAAbB
ps. sorry for all the crap surrounding my browser
September 19th, 2007 at Sep 19, 07 | 6:36 pm
Hi,
Just in search for this plugin n lucky i got from you.many thanks.Hope it works well.
September 19th, 2007 at Sep 19, 07 | 6:55 pm
Zee - screenshots all look fine. Check in wp_options to confirm that there is an entry that contains your myspace login info.
Also, are you trying to post a Notification Style “n” or Whole Blog Entry “w”?
September 19th, 2007 at Sep 19, 07 | 7:22 pm
All the info entered on the configuration page is in wp_options. I’m using the n style. all this is reflected in the wptoms_* option names.
September 20th, 2007 at Sep 20, 07 | 3:35 pm
OK I got this plugin installed and it did post a notification to my myspace…. but whenever I save a post in WP I get the following…
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/spurls/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 148
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/spurls/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:148) in /home/spurls/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 331
But it still posted the notification…. hmmm… any ideas?
September 20th, 2007 at Sep 20, 07 | 3:43 pm
Spurls - it’s only a warning, not an error, that’s why it still posted. Looks like it’s a conflict with your curl install.
September 20th, 2007 at Sep 20, 07 | 4:05 pm
So I got nuthin to worry about then… sweet.. this is a GREAT plugin!! I had been putting my blog into a widget on my myspace… but it wasnt really generating any traffic… I’m hopin this will turn that around!
Thanks for the great work!
September 21st, 2007 at Sep 21, 07 | 12:36 am
Well, technically you *shouldn’t* be getting the warning, and when you press “publish” the plugin is supposed to work invisibly. So, you have an added inconvenience insofar as it’s not invisible. But if it’s working nevertheless, it’s working!
September 21st, 2007 at Sep 21, 07 | 12:38 am
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September 22nd, 2007 at Sep 22, 07 | 2:30 am
I get the following error when I try to save or publish a post. I have tried using my URL address and by host address. I have verified that the login information is correct.
XXXXX = login name. I even created a seperate login with full access specifically for cross post with no luck :(
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user XXXXX’@'box179.bluehost.com’ (using password: YES) in /home/curiosi1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 414
Could not connect:
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
September 22nd, 2007 at Sep 22, 07 | 3:55 am
Just as a note. I saw megs post here: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:qW61px4KrQwJ:noumenon.roderickrussell.com/wordpress-to-myspace-auto-crossposting+Warning:+mysql_connect()+%5Bfunction.mysql-connect%5D:+Access+denied+for+user+wordpress+myspace&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
It appears she was having the same problem. I have verified all my settings from wp config file. Even deleted the user and created a new one. WP can access the data base fine. For some reason I can’t get it to work through the cross post plugin. Same error. Any help would be great. Thanks again.
September 22nd, 2007 at Sep 22, 07 | 8:23 pm
I’ve installed the plugin and everything works as it should… ONLY when using the “n” notification option. I would actually prefer to use the “w” whole post option, but when I use this setting the posts do not show up in myspace. I don’t get an error at all, just nothing shows up. Is there something I may have missed?
September 22nd, 2007 at Sep 22, 07 | 8:50 pm
Carrie, Nope - you haven’t missed anything. There’s a bug somewhere in there that we haven’t hunted down yet that *sometimes* prevents the ‘w’ option from posting properly. My apologies! Unfortunately I’m not in a position to hunt it out right now, but rest assured that it will be fixed in the next release.
September 22nd, 2007 at Sep 22, 07 | 9:33 pm
Roderick, thanks for the quicky reply! I’ll continue to use the plugin with the “n” option for now and I’ll look forward to the bug fix in the future.
September 24th, 2007 at Sep 24, 07 | 1:45 am
Roderick,
Thanks for the help! We arrived at the solution at about the same time. Note to others who may be having similar problem as discussed here ( http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/myspace-crossposter-v2-released#comment-3345 ).
If you are getting a “Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied” message make sure you verify that your DATABASE HOSTNAME (and of course login info) is correct. My server, bluehost.com, apparently has it set up to use “localhost” If this is the case try using that instead of “www.yourdomain.com” - Solved that problem for me…
September 24th, 2007 at Sep 24, 07 | 1:56 am
So one problem solved… now I have another:
Whenever I try to publish I get this error message: We’re sorry but an error has occured, please check your user name and password. If you are sure this is correct this may be due to myspace, please try again later. if you continue to recieve this error please contact the developers with the following information : your name and email, what function you were attempting to use, page that error occured.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at //pluggable.php on line 331
I have quadruple checked my myspace login and password.
I have checked myspace, all is well there. Site is not down.
I have checked/verified the following:
cURL is enabled
curl –version
curl 7.15.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7a zlib/1.2.1.2 libidn/0.5.6
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz
Crossposter was written and tested it on version 7.10.6, I don’t know if this may cause any issue. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks.
September 25th, 2007 at Sep 25, 07 | 4:13 am
Hi Roderick,
In the option for filling in the blog URL, do I put in the MySpace blog URL or my WP blog?
September 25th, 2007 at Sep 25, 07 | 4:26 am
Nelson - your WP blog.
September 26th, 2007 at Sep 26, 07 | 1:18 am
I keep getting the following error when I make a post:
Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [function.mysql-affected-rows]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/coolb/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 183
Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [function.mysql-affected-rows]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/coolb/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 183
Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [function.mysql-affected-rows]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/coolb/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 183
Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [function.mysql-affected-rows]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/coolb/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 183
Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [function.mysql-affected-rows]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/coolb/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 183
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/coolb/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php:183) in /home/coolb/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275
What do I need to tweak to fix?
Thanks.
September 27th, 2007 at Sep 27, 07 | 12:47 am
Slight correction. The plug-in is working and posts are getting to MySpace, but is there anyway to keep that error message form showing up after I publish a comment on my blog?
September 27th, 2007 at Sep 27, 07 | 7:17 am
just a note on the above issue: http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/myspace-crossposter-v2-released#comment-3395
i tried creating a new myspace account… just in case. no luck either :(
September 28th, 2007 at Sep 28, 07 | 2:25 am
Hi,
I have 2 quick questions:
1. How long until the version that posts bulletin alerts is out? :D That would be awesome
2. Is there any way to set the myspace blog category?
September 29th, 2007 at Sep 29, 07 | 2:59 pm
hello
I’ve been looking for something like this as I have one for Livejournal. I wondered if there were any way to limit the crosspostings to specific categories? With the livejournal crossposter you can select on the write post page whether to crosspost or not and if it should be public/your LJ friends list / LJ private post.
I only want to crosspost a few specific categories to myspace and not everything I write in wordpress, is there a way of doing that?
Thanks in advance
October 5th, 2007 at Oct 05, 07 | 8:30 pm
I get the exact same error as Spurls with a blank white page when I click publish though it gets posted both on myspace and wordpress. Please fix this bug and tell us what to change. It is difficult to live with it as it shows up everytime we post.
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/username/public_html/folder/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 148
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/username/public_html/folder/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:148) in /home/username/public_html/folder/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 390
October 9th, 2007 at Oct 09, 07 | 5:13 pm
Hey Roderick,
thanx again for your your work and patience.
The plugin works quite good over here.
Except one issue…
Whenever i publish an new post it is not viewed under Raintraders latest Blog Entries @ myspace Profile page.
I have to klick View all Blog entries to see the actual Post.
Is there something i can di about it ?
Cheers Sascha
October 10th, 2007 at Oct 10, 07 | 5:42 am
I was excited to get this installed but it doesn’t seem to be working for me. I installed it successfully and I quadruple checked the setting and they seem to be correct. I set the posts to ‘n’ for notifications as you’ve suggested in many of your previous entries. The posts are being posted to WordPress correctly so I’m at a loss since I have no idea how to tell what or why it isn’t working. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
October 11th, 2007 at Oct 11, 07 | 6:56 pm
I’m having the same problem as Russell. Everything is set correctly, no errors, just a post to WordPress.
October 12th, 2007 at Oct 12, 07 | 4:19 pm
I had been using it for a week successfully but it’s no longer posting to MySpace. No errors or anything but new posts aren’t being cross-posted.
October 13th, 2007 at Oct 13, 07 | 6:58 pm
:: Sigh ::
I’m with Nate ^
Was working fine, now won’t crosspost notifications anymore. At first I thought perhaps it was the barrage of non-letter symbols I used in my subject line, but previous posts had non-letter symbols, too, and they went through all right. I don’t know what it is; I don’t get any error messages, it just won’t send the notification to MySpace.
The only other issue I noticed is that, on the ones that did post, the timestamp was off by about 13 hours. I noticed because my Facebook crossposter is off by 11 hours, and decided to compare all my crossposting efforts. LJ is the only one that gets the time right.
October 16th, 2007 at Oct 16, 07 | 5:14 am
Hey there-
I finally got this working (a few of my posts went through fine as a test) but now it has stopped working altogether, and it looks like I am not the only one having this problem. Perhaps Myspace has caught on and devised some kind of countermeasure to the whole thing?
October 16th, 2007 at Oct 16, 07 | 6:59 pm
I am using the 1.4 version and mine tells me it’s a HASH function error. It’s not able to verify the hash value when it previews the myspace blog post. I tried disabling it, but it still doesn’t work.
October 17th, 2007 at Oct 17, 07 | 3:28 am
Yep. Just stopped working. I had two sites plugging away with it. One with the new version, one with an older 1.x version, both have stopped.
October 17th, 2007 at Oct 17, 07 | 5:53 pm
Actually, it’s not able to login anymore. I tried rewriting the code with the new login fields (I viewed the HTTP headers sent via Firefox), but I must be missing something because it still doesn’t log me in.
Once the login is working again, the rest should work just fine I’m guessing. If I figure out a fix before one is released, I’ll post the code changes here.
October 18th, 2007 at Oct 18, 07 | 4:29 pm
To all, regarding the sudden stop in functionality - still working fine from my end, and I just posted several new stories to confirm. Could it be that MySpace was undergoing changes/maintenance/usual MySpace problems and that you all tested within roughly the same time frame? They are known to have problems for *hours* if not *days* at a time.
In any event, it truly does seem to be a false alarm and all appears to be working well.
Dan - I appreciate you stepping up and offering mods! Thanks also for identifying where your install was halting!
On the road still, so apologies for slow responses.
October 18th, 2007 at Oct 18, 07 | 10:58 pm
Was working, now suddenly doesn’t. No settings changed. No errors. I think it’s a myspace thing.
October 20th, 2007 at Oct 20, 07 | 2:21 am
Great plug in, you’re a life saver! One thing I’d love to see in the next version is the option to have an excerpt of the blog entry put on Myspace, followed by something like “to read more, visit [blogname]“. Maybe this line could be customised too. Sadly I don’t have the programming know-how to modify the plugin myself, so I’m anxiously anticipating your next version. Keep up the great work.
October 20th, 2007 at Oct 20, 07 | 4:21 am
Jp, it’s still not working for me. It stopped on October 10th. No settings change or anything. I have made dozens of posts since then up to today and none of them have cross-posted. Is there something I should do to reset anything since it’s supposed to be working now?
October 22nd, 2007 at Oct 22, 07 | 4:03 pm
After installing MySpace Crossposter and using it successfully for less than 1 week - my MySpace page appear to have been deleted!! (following message…”Invalid Friend ID. This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted. “)
Has anyone experienced similar or can help me out??!!
October 23rd, 2007 at Oct 23, 07 | 10:29 pm
The latest version of the Crossposter isn’t working for me, either.
For a couple of weeks, I’ve put up with a user error in the Crossposter settings (I would get an error whenever I posted a new blog). But after fixing the error, I’ve found that my posts weren’t displaying in my Myspace account.
I’ve read that it could be that it could have been interference from Myspace whenever it does maintenance, but I must say that the last six posts that I’ve attempted, all after fixing the error and all at random times during the day and night, failed to post.
Any clues or insight would be welcome; thanks.
October 24th, 2007 at Oct 24, 07 | 11:15 am
Yeap, plugin stopped working here as well.
I would blame the MySpace code changes they implemented on October 10th. Before that it was working fine, after then - nothing. The bigger mystery is why it’s still working for Roderick?
Only reason I could come up with is that sometimes MySpace seems to implement their changes in batches with some millions of accounts getting the changes at a time.
Of course this is not a life and death issue by any means, but I really like this plugin and hope to get it work again (with the option to post notifications preferably, that would be great..).
October 24th, 2007 at Oct 24, 07 | 3:26 pm
Rigi - your explanation seems exceedingly reasonable. :)
Where did you get the news that they implemented changes on the 10th. I’d like to follow that blog. ;)
My apologies to *everyone* for being so absent - still on the road.
You’re right Rigi, it’s not a life or death issue, but like you I’ve been finding the code extraordinarily useful and would *hate* to see it go the way of the Dodo. (I’m glad that you like it, btw…)
Though I can’t help the delay right now - what with the travel and all - I’ll do what I can once I’m settled for a week or two to get it back up and working for everyone.
Of course, I’m still in that lucky bunch… ;)
October 28th, 2007 at Oct 28, 07 | 2:10 pm
[...] is simply a test post to see if the MySpace Crossposter v2.0a is going to work. With this plug-in, my blog posts should be automatically updated on my MySpace [...]
October 29th, 2007 at Oct 29, 07 | 9:40 am
THanks for replying Roderick!
For example this horrible blog discusses the changes: http://abrax.us/bbz/MyspaceBaseCodeUpdates.htm as well as Tom’s MySpace blog: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=6221
I think there are several blogs that follow MySpace. I don’t usually care enough to follow them, but this recent change broke my modifications (and the mods of very many other people).
Anyways, good luck with your show and take your time, I’ll survive untill the plugin works again and then I’ll be happy to get back to using it :)
October 29th, 2007 at Oct 29, 07 | 11:35 pm
This was exactly what I was looking for, I installed it, and got an error when I posted. Reading through the comments, it was the exact same error message others go t, but it was more of a “warning” than an error since the entry still posted to both Wordpress and MySpace. I checked and it posted to my Wordpress blog, but not MySpace. Reading more of the comments, it looks like perhaps the code just doesn’t work anymore.
This is the error I received:
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /[path removed by me]/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 148
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /[path removed by me]/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:148) in /[path removed by me]/blog/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 269
::sigh:: Thank you for your hard work! It’s too bad MySpace had to go and screw it up.
November 3rd, 2007 at Nov 03, 07 | 10:17 pm
What means this?
Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/milkalex/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 133
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /usr/export/www/hosting/milkalex/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 139
November 7th, 2007 at Nov 07, 07 | 6:50 pm
Hello, I have been using your myspace crossposter since version 1.x and I LOVE it.
Recently I upgraded myspace and your plug in to the latest version and it stopped working. I just get a “Could Not Connect:” error on a blank screen. The story is published in WP but not in MySpace.
All my configuration details seem to be correct so I am at a loss… I don’t expect you to have an answer (but if you do PLEASE email me and let me know) however I have two recommendations to improve the plug in:
1. add TEST routines to the plug in options page with a call to the database and a call to myspace so that the user can check that the info that is entered is actually correct
2. do something about the quotes (if the title of my WP story contains quote the quotes translate to ascii text such as & r s q u o ; in the title of the MySpace blog entry - you can see this behaviour on my myspace blog at http://www.myspace.com/marcurselli)
If you have any answers as to what I should look into to get it working again, please let me know. Thanks
November 7th, 2007 at Nov 07, 07 | 6:55 pm
Same problem as Camille.
November 16th, 2007 at Nov 16, 07 | 4:06 pm
A couple feature requests:
1) Ability to disable crossposting on individual posts when needed.
2) Ability to write crosspost template without going into plugin code
November 19th, 2007 at Nov 19, 07 | 6:01 am
[...] addition to the stuff I installed yesterday, I installed a WordPress plug-in called MySpace Crossposter. Once you install and configure it, every time you post to your WordPress blog it automatically [...]
November 25th, 2007 at Nov 25, 07 | 4:52 pm
Hi,
i tried the plugin but when i try to publish i obtain this error:
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in [cut]\myspaceblog\myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 139″
I’m not able to understand why this function seems to be undefined… Can you help me?
Thanks!
Mic
December 4th, 2007 at Dec 04, 07 | 10:21 pm
[...] I don’t really have to. A plugin has already been made that allows Wordpress entries to be automatically crossposted to MySpace. Of course, since MySpace has horrendous formatting tools and tends to rip nicely formatted [...]
December 4th, 2007 at Dec 04, 07 | 10:26 pm
Ha, I see your blog has already picked up my blog :-P It’s nice that they’re so friendly and communicative.
Unfortunately, the plugin didn’t work for me either (as I note in that entry). I get similar errors to what others have, starting with the formatted statement of “myspace isn’t working, but it might be their fault. Try again later and if it doesn’t work then send the developer your name, site, and what you were doing at the time.” After that, I don’t remember the exact error, but if you want more debugging info just write. I’d be happy to re-enable it and capture whatever information will help you re-enable this great plugin :-)
I’ve followed cross-posting plugins for about 4 years now, and having one for MySpace would really complete my set ;-P
December 7th, 2007 at Dec 07, 07 | 7:55 pm
Great idea for a plugin, but I’m having trouble getting it to work.
When I publish a post, I get these warnings:
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/ethanow/public_html/wheatdogg/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 148
Warning: mysql_data_seek() [function.mysql-data-seek]: Offset -1 is invalid for MySQL result index 70 (or the query data is unbuffered) in /home/ethanow/public_html/wheatdogg/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 449
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ethanow/public_html/wheatdogg/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:148) in /home/ethanow/public_html/wheatdogg/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 270
And the post never makes it to MySpace. It does appear in WordPress, though.
For the record, I’m using WP2.0.10 and my server uses PHP 4.4.7, MySQL 5.0.27 and I’m not sure what version of CURL (if any).
December 9th, 2007 at Dec 09, 07 | 9:27 pm
Many thanks for this nice plugin, it realy fills a need.
To the problem with CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, I have this too and it is clearly related to open_basedir. This should happen to a lot of people on shared hosts and those who have PLESK managing their hosts, like me :-(
IMHO open_basedir is an important security feature and should be on on all php sites.
So we should find a way to work around this problem.
December 11th, 2007 at Dec 11, 07 | 4:55 pm
Another feature request:
Ability to include one or more pictures posted in a blog with the cross post notification (see Wordbook crossposter functionality for Facebook)
December 12th, 2007 at Dec 12, 07 | 8:18 pm
[...] I stumbled upon a pretty cool plugin that hopefully solves that problem. MySpace Crossposter is a plugin for WordPress which will post all of my entries to the MySpace [...]
December 23rd, 2007 at Dec 23, 07 | 2:27 pm
I got this and decided to tweak it a little. If you have a lot of blog entries it will take longer, more ram, and generally make smaller weaker systems less usable to try to do this cross post.
The SQL statement gets all of the posts, then does offset magic to pick the last. SQL supports created ordered lists (and by definition the order is ‘random’ if you dont do this, even if it works most of the time that isnt guaranteed). Further they support limits, why get all the records when we only want a couple?
You also reference things by number and not name. PHP supports associative arrays, and names are *much* safer than numbers, since the order of items in the database can be different, especially if someone does an alter because they installed something extra or whatever.
Finally, you select * instead of just the 3 things that you wanted. By selecting only the 3 that you want, its a little more optimized - although at this level it may not matter (1 row, presumably a home user so not heavy blogging by multiple people etc). Although there are some professional blogger companies that are using myspace, so that may not always be true.
And an optional feature. I have excerpts enabled (I dont know if this is via a plugin or not, I installed WP yesterday along with plugins so I dont know what a plain one looks like in the DB). I wanted to put the excerpt on the myspace page such that it would give readers a taste but still get them off of that site - at least now I have content on my page there :)
So here is what I did:
From the sql statement on at the end of pingmyspace.php I have attached my changes (which includes some stuff I didnt change).
Now we have just the information that we want, lets use it. I did this by *removing* the mysql_num_rows() and mysql_data_seek() and the mysql_close() call. The mysql_close() call must be removed if limit > 1 (which it can be for my initial post I set it to 5 just to fill in my myspace page with ahem 5 things :) If it is there, it wont harm anything if limit == 1. PHP will call close when the page ends anyway, since the last thing we do is use it, we can slack and not call it implicitly.
Thanks for the script :)
CODE STARTS HERE
$result = mysql_query(”SELECT post_title,post_content,post_name,post_excerpt FROM wp_posts WHERE post_status=’publish’ AND post_type=’post’ order by post_date desc limit 1″);
// This is a while loop in case someone set the limit to greater than 1
// if limit == 1 then it wont matter, it will only execute 1 time
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$title=$row['post_title'];
$content=$row['post_content'];
$postUrl=$blogUrl.$row['post_name'];
$postExcerpt = $row['post_excerpt'];
$blogContent= “I’ve posted a new article entitled “.$mySubject.” on my blog “.$blogName.”. Here is an excerpt:”.
$postExcerpt. “Please visit “.$blogName.” or go directly to the article at:“.$postUrl.”Enjoy!”;
$myspaceconnect = new myspace;
$myspaceconnect->myspaceCreds($myspaceuser, $myspacepass);
$myspaceconnect->login();
$myspaceconnect->blogPost($mySubject, $postUrl, $blogContent);
$myspaceconnect->close();
}
December 26th, 2007 at Dec 26, 07 | 7:41 pm
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December 27th, 2007 at Dec 27, 07 | 5:46 am
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December 29th, 2007 at Dec 29, 07 | 3:36 am
[...] to the hard work of Roderick Russell and others in the WordPress community, I’m now able to somewhat reliably crosspost this blog [...]
January 4th, 2008 at Jan 04, 08 | 11:43 pm
[...] MySpace Crossposter posts a link to my blog entries everytime I post here. [...]
January 6th, 2008 at Jan 06, 08 | 5:15 am
Hello:
The crossposter seems to working fine. But I’ve noticed something about my postings that can be rather obtrusive.
My normal posts, for example, look like this…
Happy New Year - Urban Landscapes is 10 Years Old!
I've posted a new article entitled Happy New Year - Urban Landscapes is 10 Years Old! on my blog The Urban Landscapes Radioshow.
Due to crossposting and formatting restrictions within the MySpace system, the article will not be posted here.
Please visit The Urban Landscapes Radioshow or go directly to the article at:http://www.urbanlandscapes.org/2008/01/04/happy-new-year-urban-landscapes-is-10-years-old/
Enjoy!
At the end of the post seems to be an addition which says…
crosspost provided by noumenon
Now the “crosspost provided by” part has its fonts blown up at about 36 or 48px, and the “noumenon” link is normal.
How can I edit or get rid of this part. I don’t mind keeping this part except the bigger font size is distracting. Thanks.
January 6th, 2008 at Jan 06, 08 | 6:08 am
Nevermind…I figured it out. Thanks anyway!
January 20th, 2008 at Jan 20, 08 | 4:32 pm
I’m having an issue posting the whole post to MySpace. it seems that entries with carriage returns do not get published to MySpace. If I create a post with text:
“This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text.”
it gets published to MySpace. If I make one with:
“This is text. This is text.
This is text. This is text.”
it doesn’t. I’m using v. 2.0a of the crossposter & v.2.3.1 of Wordpress. Can anyone confirm this?
January 23rd, 2008 at Jan 23, 08 | 9:04 am
[...] Resource this is just a test post to see if i configured this cool wordpress plugin called the MySpace Crossposter which lets me blog in one place, my wordpress blog. I know I don’t blog that frequently, but [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at Jan 23, 08 | 9:29 am
I left a comment on October 29th about it not working (which it didn’t after numerous tries and futile searches online for solutions). It seemed that MySpace had changed something on their end to make it suddenly stop working for those it had worked for, and not work for new installs (like mine).
Well, I thought that was that and last week I quickly posted something to my blog (first time since November 15th - yeah, I’m a good blogger) and didn’t even notice until today that it crossposted on my MySpace!
I don’t know what changed (I didn’t do anything), but I’m glad to see it working now and hope it stays that way. Please MySpace, don’t screw this up!
January 25th, 2008 at Jan 25, 08 | 5:47 pm
I just wanted to thank you for the great plug-in, Roderick. Having something like this makes things so much easier for me, and lets me spend my time creating things rather than crossposting all over the web.
January 26th, 2008 at Jan 26, 08 | 8:08 am
[...] For those of you who would like to auto-crosspost to MySpace like you do to LiveJournal, that plugin is here. [...]
January 26th, 2008 at Jan 26, 08 | 8:25 pm
Has anyone figured out an open_basedir work around for the error?
Thanks - can’t wait to use this if we can get it to go.
Rob
January 26th, 2008 at Jan 26, 08 | 8:29 pm
[...] myspace crosspost script can be found here and i’m actually testing it out with this post. It’ll be pretty cool if it works since [...]
January 27th, 2008 at Jan 27, 08 | 12:26 am
Darn, this totally didn’t work for me either — getting the error where there is a blank page after posting and shows up fine in WP, but not in Myspace.
I can see data in wp_posts but not wp_postmeta. I’m pretty sure the settings are correct as it built the tables correctly, and quadruple checked the login settings.
I’m hoping I didn’t miss the answer in the thread — any help would be greatly appreciated :-)
Thanks in advance!
Larry
January 28th, 2008 at Jan 28, 08 | 10:45 am
Grat plugin!!
Our site has just gone online, it uses your plugin and everything work
thanks
February 3rd, 2008 at Feb 03, 08 | 8:53 am
[...] Crossposting There’s an awesome little plugin out there that will automatically post a bulletin notifying all your myspace friends of new blog [...]
February 8th, 2008 at Feb 08, 08 | 4:15 pm
[...] it then spews it back out to my accounts on Livejournal (plugin here), Facebook, and MySpace (plugin here) along with a “new entry” tweet and the standard RSS [...]
February 8th, 2008 at Feb 08, 08 | 7:19 pm
[...] blog, but to also capture and retain your MySpace audience without any extra effort. Sourse: MySpace Crossposter v2.0a Released You must be login to [...]
February 9th, 2008 at Feb 09, 08 | 10:57 am
Have you considered making an app through myspace’s API (http://developer.myspace.com/community/) because I couldn’t get mine to work, and it may be something to consider so you wouldnt be in danger of breaking their policies or urls breaking.
February 10th, 2008 at Feb 10, 08 | 2:57 pm
If you receive the error, “Call to undefined function curl_init()”
this means that curl is not properly compiled into PHP/Apache.
Have your sysadmin properly recompile your Apache.
February 12th, 2008 at Feb 12, 08 | 10:30 am
Wow its in version 2 already? nice. awesome work bro. Also what would you think about porting the plugin to use a webservice?
Sid
February 14th, 2008 at Feb 14, 08 | 3:36 am
Roderick,
Quick question, I installed this and under the first go I edited a previously published post and it showed up on MySpace fine. I was ecstatic, then I tried to play around and add an excerpt into the notification and it wasn’t working so I went back and killed all the files and reinstalled completely. Now it will only post a new post, not a post that I edit (that has not been posted to MySpace yet)
I know you have code in there to check if it’s already been published to MySpace and if it is, it will not post, but is it supposed to work the first time you edit and save a post that it will publish to MySpace?
Thank you much Sir!
February 28th, 2008 at Feb 28, 08 | 7:20 pm
[...] I figured I’d see if there was a way to do it automatically. Oh, there is: the myspace crossposter. [...]
March 3rd, 2008 at Mar 03, 08 | 6:33 am
Roderick -
Thanks for plugin. The install was painless, and the plugin worked great the first time I tried to use it. Thanks for the hard work, it is much appreciated
March 4th, 2008 at Mar 04, 08 | 6:25 pm
[...] my attempts to avoid doing work, I came across this plugin for WordPress that automatically posts your new articles to MySpace when you publish them. Since [...]
March 9th, 2008 at Mar 09, 08 | 6:42 pm
[...] using this nifty plugin to automatically post my blog posts (from my blog) straight to mySpace. This way, I can keep my [...]
March 12th, 2008 at Mar 12, 08 | 11:20 am
Haven’t been able to make this plugin work. I put in the info, exactly as it says in the config file, but it comes up saying I don’t have access to the database, yet WP itself is fine with the same info.
March 12th, 2008 at Mar 12, 08 | 1:27 pm
Brian - could be any number of things, but given the details you’ve related, it’s not the crossposter. Could likely be the database hostname that you’re using. Make sure that there’s no “http://” before your hostname in the plugin configuration, and if you’re using an explicit server name that’s not working, try using “localhost” instead. DB permissions are sometimes setup in whacky ways. Also could be that you simply have the wrong db hostname. This is more common than you’d think…
March 13th, 2008 at Mar 13, 08 | 2:47 pm
[...] am testing the MySpace Crossposter Plugin the LiveJournal Crossposter Plugin for WordPress. My Current WP Version is 2.3.3 and the plugins [...]
March 13th, 2008 at Mar 13, 08 | 3:26 pm
I am having trouble getting this to work on a yahoo hosted WP blog. I can’t seem to find the actual database name. Does anyone have have suggestions on how to fix this this issue?
March 13th, 2008 at Mar 13, 08 | 7:41 pm
Brad - I’d recommend contacting Yahoo directly to get the hostname/database name. They can give you a direct and correct answer. A quick search turned up quite a bit of info, but it’s easier to just ask the source than attempt to parse through the data hoping to find the solution.
March 16th, 2008 at Mar 16, 08 | 5:05 pm
I realize this is probably a stupid question and not likely anything to do with the plugin, but I figured I might ask…
When I do a crosspost, apostrophes come across with their formatting code slightly stripped, so it looks nasty. For example, my most recent post was called, “In times of troubleshooting, it’s usually the little and obvious things.” On the MySpace side, it comes out as, “In times of troubleshooting, it’s usually the little and obvious things.” Any ideas what might have gone wrong? I also had to change the opening line “I’ve posted a new article…” to “I have posted a new article” in the plugin itself because that apostrophe was coming through incorrectly too.
Otherwise, it’s a fantastic plugin and thanks for making it available! :-)
March 16th, 2008 at Mar 16, 08 | 5:06 pm
Er, the WP actually translated the apostrophe code into an actual apostrophe in my comment. :-) It looks on my MySpace like “& r s q u o ;” (without spaces).
March 20th, 2008 at Mar 20, 08 | 11:32 am
Hello,
I used your plug-in, but I noticed that does not allow copying of the code embeded …
In this way loose copy of the posts that contain youtube video …
Why?
March 24th, 2008 at Mar 24, 08 | 10:24 am
Everytime I try to edit by dbhost details in the plugin, I get the following message on clicking Update-
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
This has been going on for a week. Please help.
March 25th, 2008 at Mar 25, 08 | 6:03 pm
This is my 3rd comment on this board, so you’ll see that I’ve been using this for a while. Just wanted to say I haven’t changed anything and it’s stopped working. My last successful post was 3/9/2008. In the past it has stopped and started working on its own, usually in a span of months.
Here’s my error message in case anyone is encountering the same thing:
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /[path removed by me]/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 148
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /[path removed by me]/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 414
Could not connect:
I guess I’ll just wait and see again.
March 25th, 2008 at Mar 25, 08 | 6:10 pm
Camille - Thanks for being a long-term user!
Believe it or not, it actually sounds like it’s your web host that is causing the lack of functionality. You might find a solution to the problem if you contact them. Looks like they may be changing PHP options and killing your functionality inadvertently. This could be a result of reconfigs on their part, or upgrades and other maintenance. They might not realize that it’s even a problem until a complaint comes in alerting them to it.
March 25th, 2008 at Mar 25, 08 | 7:05 pm
Thanks for the quick response Rod! I have submitted a ticket to my hosting provider and will let you know what they say.
Thanks for the work you did on this. It’s a very handy plugin. Thanks again!
March 26th, 2008 at Mar 26, 08 | 1:00 pm
is this only for wordress.org or also somehow for wordpress.com blogs too?
March 26th, 2008 at Mar 26, 08 | 4:35 pm
I am having exactly the same problem and error message as Camille.
I wonder if she’s got it working yet.
March 26th, 2008 at Mar 26, 08 | 4:57 pm
Okay, it works perfectly now! No error messages whatsoever.
Here’s what I had to do (please see my comment 5 entries above for the two error messages I had received):
Regarding the 2nd error message: MY FAULT. I had deactivated the plugin some time ago after it had stopped working. I reactivated it, but what I didn’t realize is that every time you deactivate it, the OPTIONS reset to the default. These are the options that specify your database name, login, and your MySpace login details. So of course it could not connect to or post to MySpace because once activated, the plugin didn’t have the correct details. I went to Options in the Wordpress admin and re-entered the correct details. Remember, this happens every time you deactivate, so make sure to re-enter your details whenever you reactivate.
As for the 1st error message, Rod was correct in that it was with my hosting provider, and in my case, Lunarpages. Their global PHP configuration (for all customers) has safe_mode set to ON. I needed it set to OFF. (FYI: The plugin still works in spite of this error message, but I didn’t like being brought to a white page with this error message instead of back to the Wordpress admin.)
Lunarpages gave me instructions to override their PHP settings: In my root directory (outside my public_html) folder, I created and added a file called .htaccess with the following line of code:
suPHP_ConfigPath /home/cpanelusername/public_html/
(Of course, I changed cpanelusername to my actual cpanel username.)
I also created and added a file called php.ini with the following line of code:
safe_mode=off
I added this to both my root directory and also inside my public_html folder because I wasn’t sure where it was suppose to go. It looks like the first thing they told me to do is saying “Look for the PHP configuration settings HERE” which leads to public_html, so that’s why I put php.ini (the PHP configuration override) in public_html also.
I don’t know the exact technical details, but it works! I hope this helps someone.
March 27th, 2008 at Mar 27, 08 | 5:39 pm
Hi, I’m getting this error when I post any ideas?
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2) in /netapp/whnas-imperial/s7/s7/01169/www.divaliglassjewelry.com/webdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 414
Could not connect:
I’ve double checked everything, but I still can’t get the crossposting to work.
thanks in adavance
March 27th, 2008 at Mar 27, 08 | 6:11 pm
Camille - Thanks for the follow-up post and letting us know how you resolved the problem! I’m sure that others will find it helpful too!
March 27th, 2008 at Mar 27, 08 | 6:19 pm
Matt - Your warning message can indicate many possible issues, all of which would reside on your web host, so I would recommend contacting them. Here’s a list, though, of problems that can be associated with that message:
-MySQL is not actually running (not the case if WordPress is working)
-The socket file has been removed (intentionally or accidentally)
-No hostname is specified in the plugin admin (unlikely, as you say you’ve double checked it)
-A server thread has died (need to restart MySQL)
-Your account may not have proper access privileges (unlikely if WordPress is working)
Also, if you specified your hostname in the plugin admin as “localhost”, you may be able to get around the problem by explicitly stating the hostname. You’re getting the socket file warning as a result of trying to connect via the file system. This happens when you declare “localhost”. If you explicitly state a host name it will try to connect via TCP/IP, bypassing the file system, and you won’t encounter the error.
Nevertheless, contacting your web host is a good place to go for this one. It’s a server config issue, not a plugin issue.
March 27th, 2008 at Mar 27, 08 | 6:36 pm
Thanks, I’ll look into that.
I do have it set up as localhost, so I’ll start there.
I thought it was a config issue, but I was sure you’d point me in the right direction.
thanks again
March 27th, 2008 at Mar 27, 08 | 6:38 pm
Matt - My pleasure! Let us know what you find! :)
March 27th, 2008 at Mar 27, 08 | 8:06 pm
changing it to the right host worked like a charm (imagine that?).
for those of you that use Earthlink for hosting, your db host name needs to be set to:
mysql123.hosting.earthlink.net
the username needs to be set to your db name
password is your db password
and the db name is your db name
March 27th, 2008 at Mar 27, 08 | 8:39 pm
Thanks Matt! Glad it was such a simple fix. :) Good info for Earthlink users too!
March 31st, 2008 at Mar 31, 08 | 8:48 am
Does this work on Wordpress 2.5, I just upgraded but am getting weird things happening like my pages not loading and an error with the plugin being registered as the cause of the error… any ideas?
April 2nd, 2008 at Apr 02, 08 | 6:18 am
I get error messages such as this:
Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [function.mysql-affected-rows]: A link to the server could not be established in /data/12/1/15/140/1178466/user/1252957/htdocs/backuptd/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 183
However, Crossposter posts the blog entry on myspace anyway. But it will not crosspost anything that has html code in it even though myspace allows html code in blog posts. Will this ability be added to crossposter at some point in the future because it is a hug timesaver for me and I appreciate this plugin a great deal.
April 2nd, 2008 at Apr 02, 08 | 7:52 pm
[...] looks like I might be a little closer to that goal now. Last night I found a Wordpress plugin that lets me automatically crosspost to Myspace. It’s inelegant to say the least, but [...]
April 13th, 2008 at Apr 13, 08 | 2:52 pm
Hi Roderick,
Thanks for the great plugin. I dont find the “options” panel to set up my details, and the Wordpress page doesnt mention it. Should I edit the php? probably Im missing something
Thanks,
Yohami
April 13th, 2008 at Apr 13, 08 | 6:32 pm
[...] I have decided to test out the MySpace Crossposter for my blog entries. It is so hard these days to keep everyone aware of what is going on when I [...]
April 14th, 2008 at Apr 14, 08 | 2:57 pm
I have tried my best to get this working, but no matter what I do, I get a white screen when I hit post. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
April 19th, 2008 at Apr 19, 08 | 3:25 pm
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April 30th, 2008 at Apr 30, 08 | 4:07 pm
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May 7th, 2008 at May 07, 08 | 9:25 am
This is a wonderful plugin that does indeed work but whenever I post a blog using WP-Admin or using Windows Live Writer I get an error although MySpace gets updated. The error I get from Windows Live Writer is: The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received from the weblog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server
Any ideas?
Ignoring this minor issue, thank you for providing a great plugin.
Michael
May 7th, 2008 at May 07, 08 | 2:44 pm
I also get this error and i need help fixing it:
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/username/public_html/folder/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 148
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/username/public_html/folder/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:148) in /home/username/public_html/folder/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 390
Thanks!
May 7th, 2008 at May 07, 08 | 6:12 pm
I just had my server admin look at this problem after trying everything i read above and this is what he said “it was open_basedir causing this; this should be removed or commented out in apache config.”
He also said on other servers it could be safe mode but we tried that is it did not work. Anyway i hope this helps some people. We fixed the open_basedir in our apache config and it fixed the above warning message! I officially love this plug-in!
May 7th, 2008 at May 07, 08 | 7:24 pm
[...] promoter, MySpace remains a necessary evil. But I am messing around with some new WordPress-MySpace crossposting plugins, seeing if I can’t keep the MySpace community aware of things without actually popping into [...]
May 7th, 2008 at May 07, 08 | 8:05 pm
Thanks a ton, man! Just set this up on my blog and I’m loving it.
Props to you.
May 11th, 2008 at May 11, 08 | 5:16 pm
[...] to Livejournal when I make a post on my Wordpress-driven blog. There is also a plugin that auto-posts to MySpace, though it’s a really roughly written plugin. I could probably do a whole post about [...]
May 12th, 2008 at May 12, 08 | 8:17 pm
I’ve added the plugin to Wordpress 2.5.1 and it doesn’t even show up on the plugin page in order to activate it.
May 17th, 2008 at May 17, 08 | 3:42 pm
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in D:\Home\bailbondrecoveryagent\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 139
Could this be from having the wrong HOSTNAME or something?
May 21st, 2008 at May 21, 08 | 9:34 pm
I want to say thanks for making this plugin. It works great. I also wanted to share some modifications I made, in case anyone else is interested in them.
As I tried out both the notification and whole post modes, I came to the conclusion that what I really wanted was a combination of the two. I liked the link backs that notification offered, but I wanted to have actual content in my myspace blog, and not just the repetitive notification. Here is what I did:
Your code (for whole post) line 521:
$blogContent=$content;My modifications:
$blogContent="“.$blogName.”“.$content.”To comment, please click here: “.$mySubject.”“;The changes place the linked name of your blog above the content and a request to post comments to the blog at the bottom of the content post (with the post name linked to the post).
In addition to this, I changed the value of line 91 (the variable for enabling/disabling myspace blog comments) from 0 to 1. This will disable the comment system for crossposted entries, further encouraging readers to follow the link to the blog.
May 21st, 2008 at May 21, 08 | 9:37 pm
Darn, the code didn’t survive posting to your comment system. I’ll try one more time:
$blogContent="“.$blogName.”“.$content.”To comment, please click here: “.$mySubject.”“;
May 21st, 2008 at May 21, 08 | 10:36 pm
[...] MySpace crossposter [...]
May 25th, 2008 at May 25, 08 | 6:19 pm
Cool plugin!
I’m having the same issues as CoolB and others above. I get the following similar errors, but the post goes through to myspace all the same:
Warning: mysql_affected_rows() [function.mysql-affected-rows]: A link to the server could not be established in /path/to/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 183
I haven’t pinpointed the cause of this. I’m not sure what the plugin’s interaction with the DB is supposed to be (is it just checking post status to eliminate dupes?).
May 26th, 2008 at May 26, 08 | 8:54 pm
[...] that duplicates entries between the two. Something they call autocrossposting, you can find it here http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/myspace-crossposter-v2-released if you have trouble using it let me know, i will help you get [...]
June 6th, 2008 at Jun 06, 08 | 5:26 pm
This plugin was working great until yesterday. I didn’t change anything but now I’m getting this error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/701/domains/sinch.net/html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:236) in /home/701/domains/sinch.net/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 694
Any ideas why that might be happening?
June 7th, 2008 at Jun 07, 08 | 10:06 pm
I’m getting the same error as Dan since a week or so ago. And I didn’t change anything either.
June 9th, 2008 at Jun 09, 08 | 3:56 pm
I’m seeing lots of questions and no answers. Is this plugin still being supported? I’m having issues with the plugin connecting to the database - specifically, it won’t.
June 9th, 2008 at Jun 09, 08 | 3:59 pm
Update: Nevermind my comment. Myspace has an rss myspace app. You can find it here:
http://www.myspace.com/rssreader
June 11th, 2008 at Jun 11, 08 | 3:20 am
When I post I get a blank white screen that says “Could not connect” — it posts to my blog but not Myspace… what am I doing wrong?
June 17th, 2008 at Jun 17, 08 | 8:18 am
I am excited to have found this plugin. At the moment it’s not working and I’m getting the following error. It maybe something I’m doing but if you could offer some suggestions it would be appreciated.
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Host ‘mdwebhostingptyltd18.theplanet.host’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /home/pmyviqtp/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 414
Could not connect:
Can’t wait to see the plugin in action.
StevieD
June 17th, 2008 at Jun 17, 08 | 10:37 am
I have updated the host to localhost and now it works but everytime I post I get this message:-
We’re sorry but an error has occured, please check your user name and password. If you are sure this is correct this may be due to myspace, please try again later. if you continue to recieve this error please contact the developers with the following information : your name and email, what function you were attempting to use, page that error occured.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/pmyviqtp/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:236) in /home/pmyviqtp/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 694
So it’s crossposting but I get the white page with the above message everytime. So maybe I’m on the right track but am still lost as to what direction to go. This error will get awfully annoying after a while.
June 17th, 2008 at Jun 17, 08 | 1:54 pm
[...] keine Sorge, ich wechsel hier nicht die Plattform, bin ja nicht bescheuert! Aber ich teste mal das Myspace Crossposter v2 Plug-In, mit dem ich automatisch mit erstellen eines Beitrags auf meinem Blog, ein Blogpost unter [...]
June 21st, 2008 at Jun 21, 08 | 11:33 pm
I get the following on every post…
We’re sorry but an error has occured, please check your user name and password. If you are sure this is correct this may be due to myspace, please try again later. if you continue to recieve this error please contact the developers with the following information : your name and email, what function you were attempting to use, page that error occured.We’re sorry but an error has occured, please check your user name and password. If you are sure this is correct this may be due to myspace, please try again later. if you continue to recieve this error please contact the developers with the following information : your name and email, what function you were attempting to use, page that error occured.We’re sorry but an error has occured, please check your user name and password. If you are sure this is correct this may be due to myspace, please try again later. if you continue to recieve this error please contact the developers with the following inf