Site:API
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Forums
Add Forum
This API call is responsible for adding a forum to a site.
Authentication Restrictions
Superuser or user with moderator or administrator access.
Required Parameters
- action=forum
- verb=addforum
- title
- the forum title; this field is used to calculate the canonical_id, if not provided.
Optional Parameters
- description
- the forum description.
- layout
- the position of this forum relative to other forums.
- label
- allows grouping of forums based on label.
- canonical_id
- the nice looking identifier for human readable ids.
Successful Response
- status=ok
- item
- forum
- id
- the id of the newly created forum.
- canonical_id
- the canonical_id of the newly created forum.
Add Thread
This API call is responsible for adding a thread to a forum.
Authentication Restrictions
Any authenticated user.
Required Parameters
- action=forum
- verb=addthread
- forumId
- the forum id
- title
- the thread title; this field is used to calculate the canonical_id.
- description
- the thread description.
Successful Response
- status=ok
- item
- thread
- id
- the id of the newly created thread.
- canonical_id
- the canonical_id of the newly created thread.
Add Reply
This API call is responsible for adding a reply to a forum post.
Authentication Restrictions
Any authenticated user.
Required Parameters
- action=forum
- verb=addreply
- postId
- the post id; this can be either a thread id or an existing reply id.
- title
- the thread title; this field is used to calculate the canonical_id.
- description
- the thread description.
Optional Parameters
- quote
- text that you want to quote in your reply; this only applies if postId is a reply id; this is limited to 255 characters.
Successful Response
- status=ok
- item
- reply
- id
- the id of the newly created reply.
