WLW and why i have not been blogging

I’m sure you’ll find this to be a very bad excuse, however it’s true.  I have not been blogging because Windows Live Writer has not been working.  I finally got a chance to dig into the problem and this is what I found out.  PHP 5.22 has an error when generating the xmlrpc.php file in wordpress.  My hosting company, HostMonster, happens to use PHP 5.22 and therefore when Windows Live Writer looked at the xmlrpc.php to determine the details about my blog it gave me an error.  Here is a link to the site that gave me the errors. 

The site gave me the instructions to put this line of code at the top of the xmlrpc.php file

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents(”php://input”);

and since I am a noob I took that to heart… but what I should have inferred from that was to place it on the second line of the file right after the

<?php

Once I figured that out it was smooth sailing.

I would just like you to know that I am typing this on WLW in Windows 7 beta (build 7000).  Windows 7 is proving to be just as fantastic as everyone says that it is.  The installation went great.  Networking has been a snap.  Everything on my Toshiba a215-s5837 laptop was fully supported out of the box.  The new tool bar is just stellar.  And of course the entire OS is very very pretty.  Are you bored yet?

-Josh