Remote posting to WP via XML-RPC

Hey everyone

I am struggling to add tags and an Excerpt to my remotely published posts. The script is working fine, except it doesn't add these. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here is my code so far:

<?php
$user = "root";
$pass = "";
$host = "localhost";
$dbname = "dbname";
mysql_connect("$host", "$user", "$pass") or die(mysql_error()); 
mysql_select_db("$dbname") or die(mysql_error());
$query = "SELECT * FROM table where id='1'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

$rpcurl = "http://localhost/wp/xmlrpc.php";

while($get = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$title = $get['name'];
$body = $get['article'];
$excerpt = $get['summary'];
$tags = $get['keywords'];
$username = "username";
$password = "pass";
$categories = "4";

$XML = "<title>$title</title>".
"<category>$categories</category>".
"<mt_excerpt>$excerpt</mt_excerpt>".
"<mt_keywords>$tags</mt_keywords>".
$body;

$params = array('','',$username,$password,$XML,1);
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('blogger.newPost',$params);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}
?>

PHP:

Cheers

 

There was a good PHP library for handling almost everything remotely for WP (paid). I don't remember the name, do a Google search.

 

I'm sorry but that doesnt help at all!