Automaticly post a new topic when blog has a new article

Hi Forumotion!
I'm here to ask something special:
A friend of mine own a wordpress blog.
In my forum, i create a new topic with the same content as him every time he post a new article.
I'd like to know if it is possible to create a new topic in my forum, with the same content as the article on the blog. A bit like a bot who will copy the article on the blog to a new topic in the forum.

What do you think? Is it doable?

as far as creating a bot that will do this even when your offline not gonna be posible... now i might be able to make something that will make it faster for you but i will need to url to the blog and your forum version

Hey! Thanks for the fast reply!

I don't want it to post as i am offline, but rather, as my friend is also the admin of my forum, when he post the message to the blog, the topic is created in the same time in the forum.
Here's the blog's link : the forum is in phpbb3.

Thanks again

ok so i see a feed page http://frenchnerd.com/feed/  maybe we can have his feed page load into boxes and each box have a post button below it and you can scroll threw choose the ones you want and click the post button .. if this sounds good .. do you want it to get title from each blog or do you want to type your own title for each?

It seems like a great idea!
So the boxes with the post button will be only visible to my friend right?

If possible we'd like to have the title like this: [yyyy.mm.dd] + article.title
if it isn't, well, we could write it ourselves.

well the publish date is in the feed so i would be able to do that any info thats in the feed i can use ... .. only issue i see is there is html in these blogs so either the html would need to be converted to bbcode or you would have to enable html in the post .. and enable it on your forum if if its not already.. and also have every member enable it in there profile settings... if you choose to convert it .. it will take some time to write all the code and not everything can be converted ..so its up to you what you want to do .. either way this prob take about 3-5 days to complete

What we usually do for now is, copying the html code of the article, change it a little bit, and post-it in the topic. So we'll keep the html format, and the default option for html is enable.

awesome that will make it a lot easier 
give me couple days ill see what i can come up with and i will keep you updated so you know i didn't forget about you

Thanks a lot for your help

well i tried multiple ways to do this and every way i tried failed on me so im sorry but i am unable to do this

No probs! Thanks for trying!

@WyvernNE
Let's see if I understand:
You want every time a topic in the blog is created, is also created a thread with the same content and title in another part of the forum.

For this to be possible, the member will have to have access to at least write in the sub-forum that you want the new thread is created!

JS

Hi JScript and thanks for your reply!

In fact, the member in question is the admin of my forum, so its ok for the rights.

And yeah, every time a post on the blog is created, a new thread in the forum is created too.
One has told me it's possible with a PHP script. Something like a bot, but i'm not sure.
(the forum is on forumactif and the blog on wordpress)

@WyvernNE
So it's not in the same domain, in this case we have the problem of CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)!
Not to mention the fact that the member must be logged in the forum...

I made a function (other-based) that solves this problem with CORS, see:

Code:


/**
 * jQuery.ajaxCORS - Cross Domain Ajax - Version: RC1
 * Using: query.yahooapis.com, based on James Padolsey
 * Made and Optimizations by JScript - 2014/12/13
 **/
jQuery.ajaxCORS = (function(_cors) {
   var protocol = location.protocol,
      hostname = location.hostname,
      patt = RegExp(protocol + '//' + hostname),
      YQL = 'http' + (/^https/.test(protocol) ? 's' : '') + '://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?callback=?',
      query = 'select * from html where url="{URL}" and xpath="*"';

   function isExternal(url) {
      return !patt.test(url) && /:\/\//.test(url);
   }
   return function(Obj) {
      var url = Obj.url;

      if (/get/i.test(Obj.type) && !/json/i.test(Obj.dataType) && isExternal(url)) {
         // Manipulate options so that JSONP-x request is made to YQL
         Obj.url = YQL;
         Obj.dataType = 'json';
         Obj.data = {
            q: query.replace(
               '{URL}',
               url + (Obj.data ?
                  (/\?/.test(url) ? '&' : '?') + jQuery.param(Obj.data) : '')
            ),
            format: 'xml'
         };
         // Since it's a JSONP request, then complete === success
         if (!Obj.success && Obj.complete) {
            Obj.success = Obj.complete;
            delete Obj.complete;
         }
         Obj.success = (function(_success) {
            return function(data) {
               if (_success) {
                  // Fake XHR callback.
                  _success.call(this, {
                     responseText: (data.results[0] || '')
                        // YQL screws with tag <script>, then get rid of them...
                        .replace(/<script[^>]+?\/>|<script(.|\s)*?\/script>/gi, '')
                  }, 'success');
               }
            };
         })(Obj.success);
      }
      return _cors.apply(this, arguments);
   };
})(jQuery.ajax);


But that would be the client side, which to log into the forum would not be safe!
It could all be done in PHP, which includes part of logged into the board...

But that would not be topic of Forumotion platform (I think!).

JS

Well, that's seem very complicated, but yeah, as we are no more on forumtion side, i can close the topic, thanks for your help!