class IXR_Date transforms invalid timestamp.

[nasenmann]

class-IXR.php, class IXR_Date, parseIso() line 693 should look like this to solve the problem.

function parseIso($iso) {

$this->year = substr($iso, 0, 4);
$this->month = substr($iso, 5, 2);
$this->day = substr($iso, 8, 2);
$this->hour = substr($iso, 11, 2);
$this->minute = substr($iso, 14, 2);
$this->second = substr($iso, 17, 2);
WP adds timezone. See #2036
$this->timezone = substr($iso, 17);

}

[nasenmann]

fix

[josephscott]

Can you provide details on what exactly the problem is? Precise steps on how to reproduce it would be very helpful.

[mathiasschopmans]

it's pretty hard for me to explain, but i'll try:

• i'm using wordpress to aggregate content from other wordpress blogs
• i've written a wordpress plugin, which uses the class-IXR.php to send blogposts via XML-RPC to the motherblog.
• to sync the post date i'm converting the post_date via new IXR_Date() but the current implemetation returns a invalid string.

• using my fix solves the problem and returns a valid XML-RPC IXR_Date string

it is a known bug in IXR_Date. see ​http://www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Bug-IXR-DateparseIsoiso-works-incorrect

$client = new IXR_Client($xmlRpcUrl);
		
		$params [] = $id;
		$params [] = $this->wpUser;
		$params [] = $this->wpPassword;
		$params [] = array(
						'title' => $title,
						'categories' => $categories,
						'description' => $content,
						'mt_excerpt' => $excerpt,
						'mt_keywords' => $tags,
						'custom_fields' => $customFields,
						'date_created_gmt' => new IXR_Date($date),
						'post_status' => $publish
					);
		$params [] = $publish != 'publish' ? 0 : 1;
		
		$result = $client->query('metaWeblog.newPost', $params);

thanks.

[nasenmann]

will it be applied in 3.0.1? :)

[nacin]

Re-reading the comment mathiasschopmans, I can't tell whether he offered a patch, or a way to properly use IXR_Date. This ticket should only be closed as worksforme if there's no bug here.

If there is a bug we can fix, it's been around for a while, so we would not fix this in 3.0.1.

Re-opening for review.

[mathiasschopmans]

i'm sad, that the patch isn't applied in 3.0.1. writing an iphone app, which uses xmlrpc as transport and have to fix class-IXR.php everytime i update wordpress cause of the bug.

i attached my class-IXR.php here: ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/13300/class-IXR.php

@ocean90 transformed it to a patch: ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/13300/class-IXR.patch

[mathiasschopmans]

stop. maybe i got it wrong. testing...

[mathiasschopmans]

new IXR_Date(mysql2date("Ymd\TH:i:s", $post->post_date, false));

shame on me! excuse me.