March 15, 2005
Thoughts About WEBDAV and XML-RPC
I was playing around with WEBDAV on my blog last night. I replaced the index file with the source output of my website. However, I don't really see the point of WEBDAV, other than of course uploading files to your blog. I would love it if you could post entries through WEBDAV, but that is what the XML-RPC abilities are for.
My end goal with this blog is to synchronize posts on my personal blog with posts on the Case blog. Currently, I tend to use the two for separate purposes. However, I like the idea of publishing personal entries on the Case blog.
I will probably end up using the ATOM output of both systems combined with some XML-RPC magic to sync the two. I found a great PHP class to help with the scripting. I will, of course, keep everyone informed of my progress.
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The WebDAV stuff is, mostly, for:
a) Uploading files
b) Editing templates
If you notice, in the Movable Type "Templates" section, for each index template, you are given the option to "link this template to a file." If you do that, it will be the contents of the file that will be used to populate the database and generate all of your blog's index files.
So, in theory (and I say "theory" because I have never actually done this), you could link all of your templates to files, mount your blog root via WebDAV in Dreamweaver (or whatever client), and edit your templates with your favorite WedDAV-enabled WYSIWYG HTML/CSS editor.
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