Automatically create a new discussion

LLB

Hello,

I've integrated Vanilla with my website. I'd like to create a new Vanilla discussions using PHP. I believe it's quite easy, unfortunately I can't find the way to do it.
In my PHP code, I have a string for the body and a string for the discussion title, how to post it? The user is already logged in.

I tried the following, but I think a few things are missing:

$dis = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'Discussion');
$dis->Comment = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'Comment');
$dm = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewContextObject($Context, 'DiscussionManager');
$dis->Name = "Discussion title";
$dis->Comment->Body = "Message body";
$dm->SaveDiscussion($dis);

Could you please help me? Maybe, there's already a function doing this?

Thanks.

Max_B

When I had a similar goal some time ago, what I had done was:
- in my code create a form with only hidden field in it, these fields should reflect those defined by the core, especially "FormPostBackKey" which authenticate the post.
- then on some user action, post this form to the Vanilla core at "/post.php" and let Vanilla do the job.

Here below is an excerpt from my code. It use a special syntax of no use for anyone beside listing relevant fields and their value.

$form_discussion->define_controls(' "DiscussionID", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>0))\' "CommentID", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>0))\' "AuthUserID", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>0))\' "UserDiscussionCount", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>0))\' "WhisperUsername", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>""))\' "PostBackAction", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>"SaveDiscussion"))\' "FormatType", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>"Html"))\' "CategoryID", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>"'. $B_config['categorie_livres'] .'"))\' "FormPostBackKey", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id,"value"=>"'. session_val('SessionPostBackKey') .'"))\' "Body", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id))\', "","' . "This is the default first comment body" . '" "Name", \'input(array("type"=>"hidden","id"=>$id))\', "", "' . "This is Discussion title" . '" "discussion", \'input(array("type"=>"submit","id"=>$id))\',"","' . "Create a Discussion" . '" ');

LLB

Thanks, I'll try this. I don't think I've got a "$form_discussion" variable, but I'll search.

Max_B

No $form_discussion is a private variable of my own. Don't look at it neither try to get the syntax of this snippet. Only relevant and useful are the fields names and the value for "FormPostBackKey" from the session element "SessionPostBackKey"