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## moblog for Serendipity How-To
## by martoq (martoq@tetramid.com)
## v1.0-07.15.06

1. Intro
This how-to is a quick and dirty explination of how I got mobloging up on my Serendipity powered blog.
MoBlogging in my humble opinion is the act of taking a photo using your mobile phone and posting it on
your blog.  Heres how I did it.

2. Pre-Req's
   1. Blog: 
      - Serendipity >1.0 

   2. Plug-ins: 
      1. Sidebar Plugins
         - Show Entries in sidebar: This plugin will display the actual pictures.
      2. Event Plugins
         - Start Page Category: This plugin hides the entries from being displayed.
         - Popfetcher: This plugin obtains the pictures from your email account.

   3. Email:
      - Any public email account.  I happen to use a special gmail account.

3. Configuration
   1. Install the latest versions of the plugins listed in #2.
   2. Create your email account and aquire pop connectivity information.
   3. Create an entry category, goto Entries, then select Categories.  Once created your supposedly able
      to mouse over the edit button and it will display the ID.  I justed tested it and this is no longer
      working.  So for now, just click on the edit button and look at the URL.  Look for "serendipity[cid]=#"
      Where # is, is the number you will need.
   4. Plugin Configuration
      a. "Show Entries in Sidebar"
         1. Set your title.  I went with moblog. Original.  I know.
         2. Set number of photos you want displayed in the "entries" setting.
         3. Hide entries on the front page set to NO.
         4. Enter category ID.  This is the number you obtained in 3-3.
         5. Show entry title. No.
         6. Show extended entry. No.
 	 7. Save.     
      
      b. "Start Page Category"
         1. Initial View Category: None.
         2. Initial Hide Category: moblog (or whatever name you chose in 3-3)
         3. Multiple initial view categories: blank
         4. Multiple initial hide categories: category # obtained in 3-3
         5. Allow visitors to remember category: no
         6. Save.
      c. "POPFetcher" (note: you are going to have to play with this one because its based on your phone
         carrier and how they send your picture messages.  Below are the settings that work for me.  I have
         a RAZR phone with Verizon)
         1. Plugin Type: external
         2. External Launch Name: <name>  (name it and remember it for url reference later)
         3. Author: Select author to assign incoming mail to.  I created a special user for it called moblog.
         4. Mail Server: pop.gmail.com (your email server)
         5. Password: pop password.
         6. Restrict email sender: set this to you phone email address.  (ie: 9995554444@vzwpix.com to get this
            send a picture from your phone to your email and you will see the address it comes in as)
         7. Category: moblog (category name)
         8. Upload Directory: moblog/ (where the pictures are to be stored.)
         9. Blog Flag: yes
        10. Use plaintext attachments as entry body: no
        11. First text is attachment is entry, rest extended: no
        12. Strip advertisements: yes
        13. Strip special text: blank
        14. Strip HTML Tags: yes
        15. Define a string....: blank
        16. Publish Flag: Publish
        17. Comments & Trackbacks require moderation: yes
        18. Allow comments to this entry: no
        19. Delete Flag: yes
        20. APOP: no 
        21. POP3 Port: 993 (SSL pop with google, port 110 if its not ssl)
        22. Timeout: 30
        23. Save.
        
4. Test
   At this point everything you need is configured.  If it all works right, you should just need to send your 
   picture message and it will show up.  Now mind you, I have edited some source and used some CSS to get my 
   pictures to pop up, be centered, etc.  As I had said, thats not covered here.  Good luck!
   
   martoq (martoq@tetramid.com)
   site: http://www.euphoricallyvexed.com