Wordpress Forms

Question

I was wondering if it is at all possible to write a php file that will take a form submission from an external server and add the submission to wordpress as a blog post. The file should return a post->ID. Thanks

• loQ: codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post might help you
• Felipe Alameda A: An iframe could be a solution too.

Answer 1

If you want to have the form processed on the remote server, you can remotely add the submission to WordPress via XMLRPC.

An example as follows:

<?php
class XMLRPClientWordPress
{
 var $XMLRPCURL = "";
 var $UserName = "";
 var $PassWord = "";
 // constructor
 public function __construct($xmlrpcurl, $username, $password) 
 {
 $this->XMLRPCURL = $xmlrpcurl;
 $this->UserName = $username;
 $this->PassWord = $password;
 }
 function send_request($requestname, $params) 
 {
 $request = xmlrpc_encode_request($requestname, $params);
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->XMLRPCURL);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
 $results = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);
 return $results;
 }
 function create_post($title,$body,$category,$keywords='',$encoding='UTF-8')
 {
 $title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
 $keywords = htmlentities($keywords,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
 $content = array(
 'title'=>$title,
 'description'=>$body,
 'mt_allow_comments'=>0, // 1 to allow comments
 'mt_allow_pings'=>0, // 1 to allow trackbacks
 'post_type'=>'post',
 'mt_keywords'=>$keywords,
 'categories'=>array($category)
 );
 $params = array(0,$this->UserName,$this->PassWord,$content,true);
 return $this->send_request('metaWeblog.newPost',$params);
 }
 function create_page($title,$body,$encoding='UTF-8')
 {
 $title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
 $content = array(
 'title'=>$title,
 'description'=>$body
 );
 $params = array(0,$this->UserName,$this->PassWord,$content,true);
 return $this->send_request('wp.newPage',$params);
 }
 function display_authors()
 {
 $params = array(0,$this->UserName,$this->PassWord);
 return $this->send_request('wp.getAuthors',$params);
 }
 function sayHello()
 {
 $params = array();
 return $this->send_request('demo.sayHello',$params);
 }
}
if(trim($_POST['subject'])=='' || trim($_POST['content'])==''){
 die('All fields are required.');
}
$xmlrpc = new XMLRPClientWordPress("http://yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php" , "username" , "password");
$xmlrpc->create_post( mb_convert_encoding(stripslashes($_POST['subject']), 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'), mb_convert_encoding(htmlentities(stripslashes($_POST['content']), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'), 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'), 1);
echo 'Post successful!';
?>

• Destin M: Thanks for this file, however how do I return a post->ID?
• mushroom: If I'm not mistaken, $xmlrpc->create_post() should return with something containing the post ID. Try var_dump()ing it.