Programmatically Adding a Comment

lyle · December 2007

Apologies if this is answered somewhere already but I've been searching and only got more confused.

I'd like to be able to add a comment to a certain discussion from a script on my server and I'm wondering what the best way to accomplish that would be. I'm guessing it might be more complicated that just inserting a row into the comments table. Can I write a php script that uses the vanilla framework to do this easily? What would that look like?

Thanks!

lyle · December 2007

I think I've got it figured out using CommentManager. Please let me know if there's anything I've left out that should be included.

<?php
include("appg/settings.php");
include("appg/init_vanilla.php");

$Context->Session->UserID = 4;
$DiscussionID = 312;

// Load the selected user
$UserManager = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, "UserManager");
$Context->Session->User = $UserManager->GetUserByID($Context->Session->UserID);
// Ensure the user is allowed to view this page
$Context->Session->Check($Context);

// Create the discussion and comment objects
$NewComment = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'Comment');
$Discussion = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'Discussion');
$cm = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'CommentManager');
$dm = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'DiscussionManager');

// Set up the new comment
$NewComment->Clear();
$NewComment->DiscussionID = $DiscussionID;
$NewComment->Body = time(); 
$NewComment->UserCommentCount = $Context->Session->User->CountComments;

// Get the selected discussion
$Discussion = $dm->GetDiscussionById($NewComment->DiscussionID);
if ($Discussion->Closed && !$Context->Session->User->Permission('PERMISSION_CLOSE_DISCUSSIONS')) {
	$ResultComment = false;
	$Context->WarningCollector->Add($Context->GetDefinition('ErrPermissionInsufficient'));
} else {
	$ResultComment = $cm->SaveComment($NewComment);
}

if ($ResultComment) {
	echo "Comment added successfully\n";
}
else
	echo "Failed to save comment.\n";

?>