Overview
The ShoZu module for Drupal(Beta) is a Drupal plug-in that has been designed to allow uploads from ShoZu to generate entries with embedded photos or videos into a Drupal blog.
Some History
I originally started this project so that I could gain a better technical understanding of module writing for Drupal using a subject that I was already familiar with (remote API architectures), but then continued to use it to upload my cellphone images to my blog. This gave me the idea that perhaps others may want to use it to upload as well, hence this article, the availability of my code and now the release of the ShoZuDrupal destination on our production servers.
The module is very similar in functionality to the features available in Drupal using the standard XML-RPC calls such as MetaWeblog - which ShoZu already supports. The problem (from my point of view) is that most metaweblog implementations either do not support file upload or upload is supported but to create a blog entry with an embedded photo requires 2 stages, one to upload the media and the second to create the blog entry and embed the uploaded media. The code I created allows this to be done in one call, uploading the media and creating the blog entry as well.
Current Features
- Upload and embedding of photos with meta data
- Upload and embedding of videos with meta data
- Support for blog title, blog content and keywords
Module Download
The file attached here contains the module installation files that can be used with Drupal 5.x (I do not currently have a Drupal 6 install and so have not tested it). You are welcome to download this but please be aware that currently (March 2008) the ShoZu destination is not yet available on the ShoZu production servers so you will not be able to use this code with ShoZu, I can upload with my cellphone as I have my mobile connected through one of our test servers( managing the integrations does have its advantages).
22 Apr update
ShoZu is now looking at releasing this integration so that the destination (and this module) can be used on the ShoZu production servers. It has been scheduled to go into formal testing and I will update this article as soon as we have a production release date.
26 Apr update
The ShoZu production servers should have the "ShoZuDrupal" site on them within the next week, we are just testing on our staging servers now.
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Hi, this is currently true
Hi,
this is currently true as the destination has not been released on the production ShoZu servers yet mainly due to the fact that there has not really been a demand to do so. It's possible that this may be done in the future depending on demand, but ShoZu does support posting via MetaWebLog which Drupal supports so it is possible to set this up.
Steve
Hi Steve, I came across this
Hi Steve,
I came across this page while looking for a way to use my mobile phone's camera to post pictures on my drupal based weblog. The plugin you created looks promising, but as I understand from your text, it's not possible yet to use ShoZu because the drupal integration is not yet embedded in their software. Is this still correct? And if so, do you know if this is going to be implemented?
Thanks,
Joost
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