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Hi, all. I’m building an EE site that I’m integrating with a 3rd party API. I have an interface to that site’s data and want to submit data directly from there into a weblog I have set up. I am pretty sure I’m posting (via Ajax) all of the correct fields to the same script that is used by weblog submissions within the Control Panel, but the response I get back from EE is the weblog form, not the entry preview, as I expect. Also, the submissions do not show up when I go into the “Edit” tab in the Control Panel.

Is what I’m trying to do not allowed? Does anyone know how EE might be detecting that the submission is coming from outside the Control Panel? Referrer? XmlHTTPRequest header? Is this something I could hack around, possibly?

Thanks,
-Andrew

have a read up on SAEF - stand alone entry forms… this is what you effectively doing and should give you some info…

I’ve actually decided to insert my entries directly into the exp_weblog_titles and exp_weblog_data tables. Now that I dig into it, it’s fairly straightforward, though it takes a little sleuthing to match up the field_id_# columns with the custom fields.

Thanks for your reply.

The only hitch I ran into with inserting directly was that I didn’t realize I needed to update the exp_weblogs table as well. I’ll be writing this up in a blog post. I’ll post the link here when it’s ready.

Did you ever write this up? I am interested in what you found.

Sorry, it’s sitting in my blog queue. I will, I promise!