Unfortunately, when Nokia decided to go to Share Online 3.0, they stripped out the ability to manually configure the client. While I’ve had access to the documentation for creating the configuration file for some time now through Forum Nokia Pro, I hadn’t gotten around to actually making a file. Fortunately, someone came up with a PHP script that does it for me (thanks to eViLrAcEr for bringing it to my attention), though I used this script instead.

With that little matter out of the way, Share Online 3.0 was still failing. Turned out to be nothing more than a missing quote. I also took the opportunity to fix one issue I’ve always had with the script: the text was displaying after the pictures in the generated post. I decided the text should go before the pictures.

I now have a complete system for posting pictures to your WordPress blog from Share Online 3.0.

Known To Work With:

• WordPress 2.7.1 (may work as far back as WordPress 2.3)
• Share Online 3.0 from a Nokia E71 or N95 8GB NAM
• Share Online 4.0 from a Nokia N96 (Confirmed 14 April 2009 by Jaimon)

Installation Instructions (also available in Dutch)

1. Download Lifeblog PHP and Share Online PHP.
2. Generate a favicon.svg file. One option that’s kind of cool is a site called Vector Magic that will take a regular image and convert it to SVG . You can also use a tool like Inkscape to do it.
3. Copy all three files to the root of your WordPress installation. Should be at the same level as wp-blog-header.php.
4. Rename the files to lifeblog.php and shareonline.php make executable if needed.
5. If the root directory of your WordPress installation is not writable, then you will need to create a file called atomdata.txt that is writable by the web server process. In many cases this means the file needs to be made world-writable.
6. Ensure that wp-content/uploads directory is writable by the web server process. In many cases this means the directory needs to be made world-writable.
7. Edit lifeblog.php. See the comments at the top of lifeblog.php.txt on what will need to be edited.
8. Edit shareonline.php, replace all instances of http://example.com with your specific blog URL (e.g. http://lifeblogtest.co.cc). Also replace examplecom with some unique name (in service_id).
9. Access <yourblogurl>/shareonline.php with your web browser on the phone (Share Online 3.0) or configure Lifeblog/Share Online 1.x/2.x. Use the following information as appropriate:
   • Username: admin (or whatever username you use to post)
   • Password: (whatever password you specify in lifeblog.php–not your normal WordPress password)
   • Server Address: http://www.examplewordpressblog.com/lifeblog.php (only if using Lifeblog app to post or older Share Online)

After that, you should be able to use Share Online 3.0 or Lifeblog on your Nokia handset to post to your WordPress blog.

Troubleshooting Instructions:

If you want to ensure your client is working properly, feel free to use my test server by pointing your web browser at http://lifeblogtest.co.cc/shareonline.php and use the following credentials:

• User: lbuser
• Password: lbusertest

View the website (http://lifeblogtest.co.cc/), which is mobile friendly. All posts send here will disappear after 24 hours or so.

If you end up using this on more than one site, ensure you use a unique filename for the .svg file on each site in order to ensure that each site maintains its unique icon. You will need to replace all instances of favicon.svg in shareonline.php with the unique filename you’ve chosen.

[Update 2 July 2009] If you’re having problems uploading large pictures to your blog, try adding the following to your php.ini:

[Pcre]
;PCRE library backtracking limit.
pcre.backtrack_limit=5000000

To debug your own installation for other issues, do the following:

• Uncomment out any of the lines that have “logme” in them.
• Attempt to post
• Send me the following information via email (address listed to the right):
  • atomdata.txt file
  • Phone you are using to post with firmware version (Dial *#0000#)
  • Version of Lifeblog software on the phone, if possible to obtain:
    • On N80i: Tools > App. Mgr. > Lifeblog, then Select > View Details
    • On N93 and N73, I don’t see a clear way to get that information since it is an included app.
  • Version of Share Online (Options > About)

Post the information in the comments and/or send it to me in email (contact on the right). Understand that I have a “real job” and I’m not making any money at this, so support for this script is not guaranteed.

[ Update 3 January 2010 ] I have changed the test URL to http://lifeblogtest.co.cc (it was previously http://packetflow.co.cc/lifeblog/).

Comments

• 1 January 1970, Zit Seng's Superwall writes:
• 12 March 2009, Post to WordPress Blogs from Nokia Lifeblog writes: [...] 10 March 2009: People wanting to use Share Online 3.x should read Posting to WordPress Blogs From Share Online 3.0 [...]
• 12 March 2009, Post to WordPress using Share on OVI 3.0 « nokiAAddict.com writes: [...] Post to WordPress using Share on OVI 3.0 12 03 2009 Phoneboy has brought us news its now possible again to use Share on OVI v3.0 to post to WordPress.Full instructions can be found over on Phoneboy’s website HERE [...]
• 12 March 2009, Pablo writes: Hi, the link for the file shareonline.php is broken (shareonlinepghp.txt instead of shareonlinephp.txt.
• 12 March 2009, PhoneBoy writes: Link fixed
• 11 April 2009, Lifeblog Script Test Blog « Packetflow Lifeblog Test writes: [...] Online/Lifeblog implementation on their phone is compatible with my script that enables you to post to WordPress blogs from Share Online or Lifeblog. Posts will be available for 24 hours, then automatically [...]
• 14 August 2009, Suramya's Blog writes: to have the option to make blog posts directly from lifeblog on my N95 for a while now but so far was unsuccessful because no plugin existed that worked with the latest version of WordPress. So I downloaded the latest available copy of the plugin fromthis blog postand modified it to work with the latest version of WordPress. You can download the latest version of the plugin from the Scripts Directory. This version works with WordPress 2.8.x (I tested it with 2.8.2 and 2.8.4). Changelog: Ver 3.5: (15th Aug 2009): * Plug

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• Update to Nokia Lifeblog/WordPress Tool
• Lifeblog Working Once Again With WordPress
• Posting from Share Online 3.0 Test
• Post to WordPress Blogs from Nokia Lifeblog

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I had to fix a couple of problems brought on by WordPress 2.3 (database schema changed) as well as a couple of other issues I hadn’t accounted for. The end result: a version of the tool that works on WordPress 2.3 and theoretically supports posting videos. I had mixed results myself, but give it a try and let me know how it works. All the details for how to use this script are in the old post, which has been updated with this information as well as a Known Issues list.

Comments

• 15 October 2007, GadgetGadget.info - Gadgets on the web » Update to Nokia Lifeblog/WordPress Tool writes: [...] Blogsolid wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerptSome time ago, I found a script that allowed you to post to a WordPress blog from Nokia’s Lifeblog/Online Share application. I hacked it to make it work and made it available for all to see and use. The biggest request I had with it: … [...]
• 15 October 2007, colbert writes: wow, this script works. I can now upload via my N95 to my blog. Thanks for the help !
• 15 October 2007, Using Nokia Lifeblog for WordPress Blogs | Technology Blog by Colbert Low writes: [...] Finally this script works. I had tried it earlier but some how the atomdata.txt said it could recognize the XML on the blog. So i emailed Phoneboy and he got back to me quickly with a new script. I uploaded it and voila!, it really works. Now I have to check the settings on my N95 to see how the image quality can be enhanced. His new script is over here. [...]
• 16 October 2007, Use Nokia Lifeblog or Online Share To Post To WordPress Blogs - Tech|noob writes: [...] the number one request: support for video. One late night later, I updated the code and, of course, posted it on my blog. Initial reports are good. Figured this may be useful to some readers of the Gadgets Weblog. Let me [...]
• 17 October 2007, Postare su WordPress da Nokia Lifeblog | Tecnopensieri writes: [...] dei post sul proprio blog di WordPress tramite l’applicazione Nokia Lifeblog. Ora il tutto è aggiornato anche a WP 2.3. Non è proprio una procedura semplice, ma se ci volete provare, sembra [...]
• 17 October 2007, The Gadgets Weblog - Main page - Talk of Tech Tools and Toys - gadgets, ipod. mp3, review, reviews writes: There were a rash of reports of the code not working on some installations. I also took a stab at fixing the number one request: support for video. One late night later, I updated the code and, of course,posted it on my blog. Initial reports are good. Figured this may be useful to some readers of the Gadgets Weblog. Let me know what you think! [IMG]
• 27 November 2007, Ivan van Beek writes: Hi Phoneboy, I am sorry but after 2 full days looking for the answer, the only resting me was contacting you. For half a year i was using lifeblog from suppengabel and wordpress in working order, but from one day on another it wasnot working anymore. Soooo i found your lifeblog.php and i switched to wordpress 2.3.1. No i dont have that strange error on the password and login anymore but another one i cant find the solution for. when posting my phone keeps saying (from dutch to english: item will be posted/is to be posted 1/1 then i take a look in de wp-content/uploads i see the picture uploaded (i can even download and see it). but it will not be posted on my blog. everything is oke, password en login are the same on my phone, lifeblog.php and in wordpress (all the same). in earlier days :-) there was also a thumbnail in the same directory but not anymore. the same errors i also had in 2.3 before switching to 2.3.1 i made the name of the category the same as i have in my blog with a post under it. I use a nokia n95 with firmware V12.0.013 wordpress is version 2.3.1 (the latest) atomdata.txt is attached. I hope you can help me out it drives me crazy, there has to be a solution :-) Hope you can help me. Kind regards, Ivan 2007-11-25T11:44:09Z: method: GET 2007-11-25T11:44:09Z: action: list 2007-11-25T11:44:09Z: ========================= 2007-11-25T11:44:26Z: method: POST 2007-11-25T11:44:26Z: action: post 2007-11-25T11:44:26Z: postaction 2007-11-25T11:44:26Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:44:26Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007.jpg 2007-11-25T11:44:27Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:zo 25-11-2007 03:09 25112007 2007-11-25T11:44:27Z: ========================= 2007-11-25T11:49:05Z: method: POST 2007-11-25T11:49:05Z: action: post 2007-11-25T11:49:05Z: postaction 2007-11-25T11:49:05Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:49:05Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007_2.jpg 2007-11-25T11:49:05Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007_2.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:zo 25-11-2007 03:09 25112007 2007-11-25T11:49:05Z: ========================= 2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: method: POST 2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: action: post 2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: postaction 2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: error: WordPress upload directory is not writable 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: method: POST 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: action: post 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: postaction 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007.jpg 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:zo 25-11-2007 03:09 25112007 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: ========================= 2007-11-25T11:55:16Z: method: GET 2007-11-25T11:55:16Z: action: list 2007-11-25T11:55:16Z: ========================= 2007-11-25T11:55:51Z: method: POST 2007-11-25T11:55:51Z: action: post 2007-11-25T11:55:51Z: postaction 2007-11-25T11:55:51Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:55:51Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007_2.jpg 2007-11-25T11:55:51Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007_2.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Je 2007-11-25T11:55:51Z: ========================= 2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: method: POST 2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: action: post 2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: postaction 2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007.jpg 2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Je 2007-11-25T11:57:38Z: ========================= 2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: method: POST 2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: action: post 2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: postaction 2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007_2.jpg 2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007_2.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Testje 2007-11-25T11:59:11Z: ========================= 2007-11-26T12:03:29Z: method: POST 2007-11-26T12:03:29Z: action: post 2007-11-26T12:03:29Z: postaction 2007-11-26T12:03:29Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-26T12:03:29Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007_3.jpg 2007-11-26T12:03:29Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007_3.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Testje 2007-11-26T12:03:29Z: ========================= 2007-11-26T12:06:27Z: method: POST 2007-11-26T12:06:27Z: action: post 2007-11-26T12:06:27Z: postaction 2007-11-26T12:06:27Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-26T12:06:27Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007_4.jpg 2007-11-26T12:06:27Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007_4.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Testje 2007-11-26T12:06:27Z: ========================= 2007-11-26T12:10:59Z: method: POST 2007-11-26T12:10:59Z: action: post 2007-11-26T12:10:59Z: postaction 2007-11-26T12:10:59Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-26T12:10:59Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007_5.jpg 2007-11-26T12:10:59Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007_5.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Zondag 2007-11-26T12:10:59Z: ========================= 2007-11-26T12:29:33Z: method: POST 2007-11-26T12:29:33Z: action: post 2007-11-26T12:29:33Z: postaction 2007-11-26T12:29:34Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-26T12:29:34Z: filename: /lifeblog-25112007_6.jpg 2007-11-26T12:29:34Z: id: url:/lifeblog-25112007_6.jpg,type:Image,format:Image,summary:Zondag 2007-11-26T12:29:34Z: =========================
• 27 November 2007, Bad Penny writes: Arrivial of the n95... The license you grant to Twango is a worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute the content you provide (including any commentary or electronic files of any type), and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other work...
• 27 November 2007, colbert low writes: Looks like the WordPress upload directory is not writable. You can use your FTP program and right click on the upload dir and make it writable (755) It should be somewhere at /home/yourBLOG/www/wp-content 2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: filetype: .jpg 2007-11-25T11:52:22Z: error: WordPress upload directory is not writable 2007-11-25T11:53:04Z: method: POST
• 27 November 2007, Ivan van Beek writes: Hi Colbert, No thats not the problem. That was the first time :-) but the file gets there, thats not the problem. But it goes wrong somewhere between putting the file there by the phone and doing something else (writing the blog and ending the transmission with the phone??? Because the phone keeeps saying item will be posted/is to be posted. Normale it does say that but after 10 seconds that dissapear but now it doesnt. Ivan
• 28 December 2007, Ivan writes: Hi Phoneboy, How are you going with wordpress 2.3.1 and the Nokia N-series on lifeblogging? I still haven't been able to get through the "item is to be posted" mentioning on the phone. How are your experiences with it? All settings are okay and tried several versions of lifeblog.php. Kind regards. ivan ivan@luna.nl
• 1 March 2008, david writes: I think lifeblog has died with wordpress 2.3.3 is this confirmed or is it just me? i keep getting "unauthorised" messages - yes i have checked the passwords many times
• 2 March 2008, ivan101 writes: had same problems, but all is working again. Newest lifeblog (n95-8gb with latest firmware) and with that latest share application of OVI installed on it. WordPress version 2.3.3. But what i discovered is that the APN on the phone was the guilty one, so i changed that to, not to use the gateways that default are set in the apn. But another good application that works perfect (even with video, audio, links etc) is wavelog. Phoneboy wrote about it. Ivan
• 3 March 2008, david writes: excellent, Ivan, yes the apn was the issue, since wordpress was done internally. all fixed now. when posting a picture, is it possible for lifeblog to post the picture, even if it is a thumbnail to the page and not just a holder saying "lifeblogimage"
• 3 March 2008, ivan101 writes: hi david, yes indeed and if you use the Lightbox 2 plugin (http://zeo.unic.net.my/notes/lightbox2-for-wordpress/) then your pictures are even lightboxed without any manual handling. Woww really good to be posting alive again ;-) Ivan
• 9 May 2008, Arnstein writes: Finally got this working - my problem was that I could get the blog-list but when I tried posting it said "web server not found" - after looking trough the webserver logs - it seems the lifeblog app used the right directory for listing the blogs, but stripped the directory when posting - so i'd have a get for wp/lifeblog.php and a post for /lifeblog.php - when WordPress was installed in a subdirectory. I finally managed to put in a htaccess-file to redirect - but that was definitely strange behaviour from the lifeblog application on my N82...
• 8 August 2008, Zible writes: For some reason I can't get images to post if my lifeblog optimization setting is set to no. It uploads a zero bit file and I get an error saying that the type is unsupported (not supprising since it wont match the regular expression in the .php if there aint nothing there) Has anyone else ran into this problem?
• 1 September 2008, Nokia Brand writes: I would like to say thanks for your good article sir. u have made a very good information about nokia phone news, so if someone has tracking the nokia phone news so they should go and read this article. I have try and spend my times to make a research and tracking the nokia phone news. I hope i can do well... i have try and fix so many phone, now I want to write an article about the Nokia phone news... from, Nokia Phone News

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Since 99% of the time when I post from my mobile, it’s to my Vox blog anyway, I think I’ll switch over to the Vox Mobile application, which seems to be far better behaved. For the odd post from my mobile that needs to go to here, I’ve got other ways to post

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Meanwhile, I was trying to post a few of my pictures on LifeBlog. What happened? I got the “Posting failed, please try again later” message over and over again. Oh yeah, this application wants a constant connection and guess what LifeBlog has an issue with? So off to the Connection Manager to temporarily kill the GPRS connection, back to LifeBlog to hit post, and meanwhile praying it actually works.

I should have just used the Vox application for Symbian Series 60 3rd Edition, but I didn’t have it handy on the phone and I didn’t feel like trying to find it. You can find out more about it from this article in the Vox Knowledge Base.

Comments

• 8 April 2007, Other Reasons LifeBlog Isn’t Popular–With Me Anyway writes: [...] hard time accepting is that it can’t deal with networking very well. As I’ve stated in previous posts, it doesn’t cope well with the desired connection is in use. Today, I’m trying to post [...]
• 8 April 2007, The PhoneBoy Blog writes: of it today when I was having issues posting with LifeBlog.  Sure, I’d like to see it post to other types of blogs, but I can accept it won’t. What I have a hard time accepting is that it can’t deal with networking very well. As I’ve stated inprevious posts, it doesn’t cope well with the desired connection is in use. Today, I’m trying to post something. I know the network connection isn’t up. It is, however, insisting that “Posting failed, please try again

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I’ve heard the quote from Robert Heinlein “an armed society is a polite society.” Guess what: most of our society is now armed with camera phones. And while we’ve always had nature’s perfect camera: the eyes, what we now have with camera phones is the ability to share what we saw with others very easily. Nokia has tools built-into the Nseries devices that make it fairly straightforward to post what you’ve captured to Vox, not to mention the tool that Vox itself makes available for Nokia handsets.

Unlike guns, it’s not going to be easy to legislate these things out of existence. The camera phones aren’t going away anytime soon and are only getting better. I think the best thing we do is assume that anything we do in front of others can easily be captured by someone and shared with others instantly. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll all act a little nicer towards each other in the process. Polite society, indeed.

Comments

• 10 February 2007, Stefan Constantinescu writes: i do not like the assumption that people have to act nice out of fear. people should act nice because they want to act nice, not because a camera phone is in the room.
• 26 November 2007, VIRGINIA writes: WAZ UP MY PIZZLES I'M JUST CHILLIN' W/ MY BFF'S

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Newer phones will ship with Vox support built-in. For the older phones, they provide a settings file and describe the process for getting the file to the phone. It seems to be a better approach here would be to provide a mechanism to SMS said URL to the mobile phone so the settings file could be downloaded directly to the phone. The fact this requires data service on your phone shouldn’t be a showstopper because that will be necessary to use the service anyway.

I’ve been using Vox for several months now as a place to post my personal musings and find it a delight to work with. I would strongly consider using it for my main blog if they offered a paid version where I could have more control over the service (e.g. specify my own ads, blocks, minor customizations to the templates). But, alas, they offer no such service.

One open question is whether or not an existing Vox user can obtain the extra gigabyte of upload space a month. I’m asking about it.

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