Yes, that error happens with every version of b2evolution.
There no way to use LW with b2evo right now.

I will try to debug it.

I was able to publish to [url=http://daury.net/phpbb/]my blog[/url] using Live Writer Version 2008 (version 12.0.1367.1128)
I select Wordpress 2.2 API and I'm using b2evolution 1.10.3.
I got an error when Live writer tried to delete a post

[06-Jan-2008 15:55:44] PHP Catchable fatal error:  Object of class xmlrpcval could not be converted to string in /www/daurynet/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php on line 1765

Next step I will try with b2evolution 2.3.0

On my test platform I was able to post to b2evolution 2.3.0. I used wordpress 2.2 API (URL provide to live writer: http://localhost/b2evolution/blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php )

I was able to :
- download skin
- publish some post.
- publish post in draft mode
- view web preview
- upload an image

I was not able to
- select a category.
- to modify an existing post. I got an error

[06-Jan-2008 16:14:11] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: blog_ID in C:\Slamp\wamp\www\b2evolution\blogs\xmlsrv\xmlrpc.php on line 1599

[06-Jan-2008 16:14:11] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  dateCreated in C:\Slamp\wamp\www\b2evolution\blogs\xmlsrv\xmlrpc.php on line 1611

[06-Jan-2008 16:14:11] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  mt_allow_pings in C:\Slamp\wamp\www\b2evolution\blogs\xmlsrv\xmlrpc.php on line 1671

I saw in live writer forum that some users have problems when trying to modify existing post.

slamp wrote:

I was able to publish to [url=http://daury.net/phpbb/]my blog[/url] using Live Writer Version 2008 (version 12.0.1367.1128)
I select Wordpress 2.2 API and I'm using b2evolution 1.10.3.
I got an error when Live writer tried to delete a post

Lucky you!
I use 1.10.3 but i'm not able to post anything. I always get an error and LW publishes an empty post. It retrieves blog style only.

Using 2.3.0 i'm not able to do anything. It retrieves neither categories... :(

I can post to demo.b2evolution.net v2.3 by firefox scribefire but I can not post to my b2evolution blog v2.3 in my own server...
...??...!!!...

farhad2na2 wrote:

I can post to demo.b2evolution.net v2.3 by firefox scribefire but I can not post to my b2evolution blog v2.3 in my own server...
...??...!!!...

As this is not a live writer problem, please open a new thread.

Lucky you!
I use 1.10.3 but i'm not able to post anything. I always get an error and LW publishes an empty post. It retrieves blog style only.

Using 2.3.0 i'm not able to do anything. It retrieves neither categories...

Could you enable debug mode in conf/_advanced.php ?

For 2.x users only (1.10 users may try, simply keep a backup in case it fails)
Check out the latest CVS version here: http://evocms.cvs.sourceforge.net/evocms/b2evolution/blogs/xmlsrv/.
You want the file xmlsrv.php *and* the folder apis (plus contents of that folder - 4 files).
You can get LiveWriter working using the MetaWeblog API.

Please report back to this topic

Afwas wrote:

For 2.x users only (1.10 users may try, simply keep a backup in case it fails)
Check out the latest CVS version here: http://evocms.cvs.sourceforge.net/evocms/b2evolution/blogs/xmlsrv/.
You want the file xmlsrv.php *and* the folder apis (plus contents of that folder - 4 files).
You can get LiveWriter working using the MetaWeblog API.

Please report back to this topic

I followed your instructions but still unable to use WLW

2.4 will be out in some weeks time. You can try try nightly build. See http://manual.b2evolution.net/CVS_version which refers to http://doc.b2evolution.net/b2evo_HEAD_snapshot.tgz (it gets build nightly).

Good luck

slamp wrote:

I was able to publish to [url=http://daury.net/phpbb/]my blog[/url] using Live Writer Version 2008 (version 12.0.1367.1128)
I select Wordpress 2.2 API and I'm using b2evolution 1.10.3.
I got an error when Live writer tried to delete a post

[06-Jan-2008 15:55:44] PHP Catchable fatal error:  Object of class xmlrpcval could not be converted to string in /www/daurynet/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php on line 1765

Next step I will try with b2evolution 2.3.0

Hi, are you able to fix this one? I found out that line 1765 is trying to initialise the object into a string variable, so you can try commenting that out or add ->me['string'] to $_xh[$parser]['params'][$i]

exactly like this:
$_xh[$parser]['params'][$i]->me['string']

xmlrpcval Object
(
    [me] => Array
        (
            [string] => 1Kg6sU-0004Lm-HR
        )

    [mytype] => 1
)