Attach image to post in Wordpress XMLRPC

Question

I am using XMLRPC to do posts to Wordpress. I am having issues posting thumbnails, after debugging wordpress code I see that my issue is caused by the fact that the image is

Answer 1

This is my version, using wp.newPost and wp.editPost, added on WordPress 3.4, that allow the use of custom post types.

require_once("IXR_Library.php.inc");
$title = 'My title';
$body = 'My body';
$category="category1, category2"; // Comma seperated pre existing categories. Ensure that these categories exists in your blog.
$keywords="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3";
$customfields=array('key'=>'Author-bio', 'value'=>'Autor Bio Here'); // Insert your custom values like this in Key, Value format

$title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,@$encoding);
$keywords = htmlentities($keywords,ENT_NOQUOTES,@$encoding);

$content = array(
    'post_title'=>$title,
    'post_content'=>$body,
    'post_type'=>'some_custom_post_type',
    'post_status' => 'draft', // http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Status
    'mt_allow_comments'=>0, // 1 to allow comments
    'mt_allow_pings'=>0, // 1 to allow trackbacks
    'mt_keywords'=>$keywords,
    'categories'=>array($category),
    'custom_fields' => array($customfields)
);

// Create the client object
$client = new IXR_Client('http://example.com/xmlrpc.php');
$username = "wp_username";
$password = "wp_username_password";

$params = array(0,$username,$password,$content,true); // Last parameter is 'true' which means post immediately, to save as draft set it as 'false'

if (!$client->query('wp.newPost', $params)) {
    die('
Something went wrong - '.$client->getErrorCode().' : '.$client->getErrorMessage().'
');

    }
else
{   
    $post_id = $client->getResponse();
    echo 'Inserted with id'.$post_id;
    $picture = '/full/path/to/pic.jpg';
    $content = array(
        'name' => basename($picture),
        'type' => mime_content_type($picture),
        'bits' => new IXR_Base64(file_get_contents($picture)),
        true
    );
    if (!$client->query('metaWeblog.newMediaObject', 1, $username, $password, $content)) {
        die('
Something went wrong - newMediaObject'.$client->getErrorCode().' : '.$client->getErrorMessage().'
');
    }
    else
    {
        $media = $client->getResponse();
        $content = array(
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'post_thumbnail' => $media['id']
        );
        if (!$client->query('wp.editPost', 0, $username, $password,  $post_id, $content)) {
            die('
Something went wrong editPost - '.$client->getErrorCode().' : '.$client->getErrorMessage().'
');
        }
    }
}