postevent doesn't seem to return the right itemid

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[Jan. 6th, 2003|12:55 pm]

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[fieldsnyc]

I'm writing a php class to post events from another system. I can post just fine, but the returned itemid is always "14", which prevents linking back to the new post. Anyone know why this is?

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benzado
2003-01-06 03:13 pm (UTC)

The itemid returned isn't the same as itemid used on the website. postevent will also return a value called "anum". The web-itemid = itemid << 8 + anum. (Or web-itemid = itemid * 256 + anum if you can't shift bits.)

If it really is always "14" no matter what, you've got some other problem.

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fieldsnyc
2003-01-06 04:40 pm (UTC)

No, that seems to work just fine. Is that equation documented somewhere that I missed?

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benzado
2003-01-06 04:50 pm (UTC)

It's not in the protocol documentation, but it comes up about once a month in this community.

This is why LJ needs a search engine.

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fieldsnyc
2003-01-06 07:22 pm (UTC)

Or at least someone to update the protocol docs with something other than "I don't see why this is useful".

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