I have searched and browsed here ... and I MAY be imagining things ... but I seem to recall a discussion on how to set up a forum to pick up blog posts as topics, and the comments posted to the blog as responses. If such a thing is possible, can someone please link me to the post(s) that explain it?

TIA

What you can do is, when you make an entry, use the “forum” tab to post to the forum, too - then in the weblog entries variables you’ll see one for if_forum_topics - that can make a link to the forum from the entry.

But there is no way to cross-polinate the comments; either have responses in the forum - or in the comments. I turn off commenting for blog postst that I x-post to the forums, to avoid any confusion.

Gah ... I’m sorry. I really am. I am completely, totally and absolutely stupid these days. Seriously. Nicotine withdrawal is not a pretty thing.

*blank stare*

OK .. I don’t have the forums installed on my site where I can fiddle around with this. This is for a paying client who does have the forums installed and I can’t really go making a mess of his site, even for a few minutes. So ... he makes a post ... and copies it into the Forum Topic Text tab? Or makes the forum post first, posts the same thing to the blog and puts the forum post ID in?

I think I got a grip on the IF forum thing ... put that instead of a comments link ... {if_forum_topic} and {if_comments} and whichever applies will appear on the post, if the client remembers to disallow comments on posts that have forum links .... or I can go in later and remove them, I have to edit most posts anyway because Ecto puts some weird non-validating stuff in there, and he forgets to double-Enter before block level elements ....

holy crap I am rambling.

*wanders off in a daze*

Either way is fine, but if it’s a new post I’d do the blog post and using the forum tab option - a lot easier.  The taking the ID and putting it in is better for older posts or when you change you rmind.

Yeah I’d really like the forums to be my commenting system. I want it to show “2 Comments” or whatever after each post like normal, which links to a thread with my post and comments in the forum. I assum if you register for the blog you are registered for the forum?

Anyway to better intergrate this?

I haven’t seen anyone post a query that would grab the number of messages in the related forum entry, but I’d imagine it’s possible for someone knowledgeable with queries.

Membership is site-wide, so yes, a member is registered for both weblogs and forums (and any other modules…)

There’s a field called thread_total in the exp_forum_topics.

1 is for the first entry, and any more than that would be the replies to that topic.

{forum_topic_id} is what you’d use in a {exp:query to get back the thread_total.

Does that make sense? Not putting out the full code here, just enough to get you started.

Sue, thanks for the starter tips, I’m going to give it a go, and I will share what I come up with.

Lisa - 12 October 2005 01:59 PM

I haven’t seen anyone post a query that would grab the number of messages in the related forum entry, but I’d imagine it’s possible for someone knowledgeable with queries.

Membership is site-wide, so yes, a member is registered for both weblogs and forums (and any other modules…)

It was easy-smeezy.  Here’s the ‘if’ for the forum topic and the query that adds the number of threads in the associated forum entry (appears like # of comments).  The only hitch is that it counts the initial forum entry as one.  You could probably use the snippets plug in (or insert some php) to calculate the total and reduce by one, but that’s only if you’re a lot more anal than me (and that would be extremely rare).  This was good enough for me:

Wiki’d - thank you, Connie.

Hello Lisa

If you haven’t packed up and left for a memorable New Year Party, perhaps you could either point into a link, or be more specific about “Either way is fine, but if it’s a new post I’d do the blog post and using the forum tab option - a lot easier.  The taking the ID and putting it in is better for older posts or when you change you rmind.”

I ve tried either way…obviousleynot… still cant see damm thing on my forum ... could it be some settings have have not ammended?

Have a great new year

Laurent

Laurent—see:

Video HowTo: Add a Forum Entry with a Regular Entry

Hello Sue

I followed the procedure. I can now see the article appearing in the forum too. Thanks.
But the article in the blog does not show a link to the forum…

Also, re existing articles that i would like to appear in the site, despite inserting the same content and the forum Topic ID, (you looked on your browser URL window,)i still cant see it showingonthe forum, nor having a link at the bottomof the article.

BTW. Real neat little video!

thank you for all the trouble.

Laurent