Jason,

We would like to use Gossamer Forum for discussions not appropriate for our regular email system. We are looking for a way to create a forum via a script or command so we can give the user the option of creating a forum and then a script will do the work for them behind the scenes.

Thanks, Norm.

I use a script to make a forum when a person wants to discuss an article. The real trick is to have it check for a prior thread first before creating it and then changing the link that was used to create the thread into a direct link to the newly created thread.

It works great but requires InteractiveTools Article Manager to work.

I am sure that GT or the other fine developers here could put something together for an alternate application though.



Good luck!

A command line script to do this is fairly simple; basically:

perl -I/path/to/admin -e 'use GForum qw/$DB/; GForum::init("/path/to/admin"); my $i = $DB->table("Forum")->add({ forum_name => "Forum Name", cat_id_fk => 24 })'

That will use the defaults for everything other than forum name - take a look at the other columns in the gforum_Forum table to see other values you can pass in. Note that you'll have to specify the bits in red - the forum name, and the category in which to create the forum.

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Jason,

Where would you put this code? If users are adding forums, is there a way for the sort order to constantly update alphabeticly?

To put some control on the situation, is it possible for you to add a link, like REQUEST A FORUM. The resulting page takes the data that you are looking for and holds it, notifies the admin that there is a pending request, and allows them to officially authorize the new forum?

I currently have a forum for REQUEST NEW BOARDS HERE - and have to manually enter the info into the admin console - this looks like a way to automae that process.

Jason
Do you have a one liner that will add a post (character string) to a forum ?

Bob