specific forum into a post??  you want the whole forum?  or just recent posts?  there is no way to have a forum displayed on a page by itsef… but using the recent post template function, you can pull in the last X posts from that forum…  and they will link to the actual forum…

The setup of the site is kind of complicated  basically, the end user logs in, and purchases a course.  Upon successful purchase, they can access the course videos.  (Right now, these are displayed in a custom post type.) The courses also come with access to private forums that go along with the course.

The client wants me to pull in the private forum (that goes with the course) into the pages with the course videos.  So while someone’s watching the course video, they can look through the forums that go along with the course, and view previous posts or add their own right on that page. (as an example, if you visit http://udemy.com, you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about.)

I wasn’t sure it it was possible to just pull in a single forum into a post using template tags, or if it was more realistic to do something like, say, do a popup window that has the video on one side and uses an iframe to pull the forum into the other.  I’m thinking the iframe solution might be what’s needed – but if I do that, I don’t want to allow the end user to back up out of the forum and switch to a different one.

Alternatively, if there’s some kind of method where I could just create a form, so if the end user posts something with that form it’ll get posted directly into the forum in question, that would be good, too.  I have Gravity Forms, so that;s possible – but I’d need to know what hooks to use to make the content post into the forum without actually *being* on the forum page.

No – afraid it is not possible to create a working instance of a specific forum into another page. The iFrame might work though…

The form question is doable if you need to go down that route. I am racking my brains for gotchas but I think it would be just a matter of (a) setting up the necessary POST variables and hooking the form action to the correct file (/forum/library/sp-post.php). We can certainly advise on what would be needed in more detail.

I’ll look into the plugin code, but yes, please – if you can provide me with hooks and/or what $_POST info I’d need, that would be great.  I’m pretty good at bending Gravity Forms to my will – I just need to know what to hook into to make the end result good.  That would be preferable to an iFrame (but you gotta do what you gotta do, I guess )

Thanks

I think the basic set (and I will check some more later) would be – for a new post in an existing topic:

forumid
forumslug
topicid
topicslug
action = ‘post’
postpin = false
guestname = empty
guestemail = empty
editTimestamp = false
postitem

These would be the actual POST variable names. The first four speak for themselves I think. The next five can be set as shown. The last one ‘postitem’ needs to contain the actual post text.

The form action would have to be the php file as I specified above.

You can always take a look at the file /forum/content/forms/sp-form-post.php for the basics. That is the display code for the new post in existing topic data entry form.

Now – if instead you want adding a new topic then shout – you will need one or two additional items.

Thanks! That’s really helpful!

Just shout if you need any help.