Posted by shushu on May 6, 2010 at 8:51am
Hello,
A client of mine has a PHP-only site, and has relationships with a Drupal based site.
Now, they asked me to "semi integrate" the Drupal-based site's forums with their PHP site.
While I believe showing the discussions can be done using some XML feed from Drupal, they also asked me to enable creation of new content in the forums from their PHP site.
The first idea popped in my mind was to use Services, but now it seems that Services does not come with forum support "out of the box".
Is this a good direction ?
Is there any existing module that do what I want ?
Thanks,
Shushu
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Isn't the forum just based on
Isn't the forum just based on nodes and taxonomies that are presented in a special way? It should be possible to interact with most parts of it through the existing services.
Seems you are correct
It is good to find this out - as you said, forums seems to be just another node content type.
What about the comments ? It seems that nodecomments makes comments nodes, but I guess they don't use this.
And maybe Services is even more than I need, since BlogAPI might do the trick.
Thanks.
Shushu
Forum is not just a normal node
If you look at the DB tables you notice a table called forum. If entries are not inserted into this table nothing shows up in the real Drupal forum. I would be great to be able to add forum topics with services. I not sure it can be done.