Vanilla PHP helper to load discussions from Flarum API

clarkwinkelmann

KazeroG I updated the wording in my original post.

Yes if you have a simple PHP page, dropping that code will allow you to display a list of posts from your Flarum without any additional dependency.

KazeroG

sems not working and showing nothing !
https://manslandlife.tk/test.php
forum link : https://manslandlife.tk/forum/v2

clarkwinkelmann

KazeroG it's obviously working for me or I wouldn't have posted it ?

I only tested it on PHP 7.1 though. But I think it should be compatible back to 5.6-ish.

Can you find some error in your PHP/Apache/OS log files ?

KazeroG

clarkwinkelmann Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Could not decode the posts in /home/u857997072/public_html/test.php:68 Stack trace: #0 /home/u857997072/public_html/test.php(52): FlarumDiscussionStream->queryAndParse('https://manslan...') #1 /home/u857997072/public_html/test.php(171): FlarumDiscussionStream->fetch() #2 {main} thrown in /home/u857997072/public_html/test.php on line 68

I use PHP 7

clarkwinkelmann

KazeroG make sure you don't include a trailing slash in the forum url property. Otherwise could you do a var_dump() of $url in fetch() or of $response in queryAndParse() ? Whatever page you're hitting probably isn't returning JSON.

KazeroG

clarkwinkelmann that the code source https://github.com/KazeroG/load-discussions-from-Flarum/blob/master/index.php and you can check i put the link without slash !

KazeroG

@clarkwinkelmann its does work now ! somehow all include tag were deleted every time i past the code ! but still the script work only on a full domain without subdirectory like https://discuss.flarum.org

My forum link : https://manslandlife.tk/forum/v2

clarkwinkelmann

KazeroG it works flawlessly. You just didn't change my example ?

In my code I do:

$discussions = (new FlarumDiscussionStream())->tag('dev')->fetch();

Which fetches the dev tag on this forum.

On your forum you have no dev tag so of course this returns no discussions (and my example simply does not show anything when there are no results).

You could use one of your tags like that:

$discussions = (new FlarumDiscussionStream())->tag('hors-role-play')->fetch();

Or just all discussions without filtering by tag:

$discussions = (new FlarumDiscussionStream())->fetch();

I updated the snippet to show a message when there are no discussions matching ?

KazeroG

what a stupid guy i am sorry ! thanks very much !

KazeroG

Edit : ? love it work great but the fetching time does not fetch all posts ! i can only fetch 2 post ...

is it related to : protected $limit = 5;

https://manslandlife.tk/test.php

clarkwinkelmann

I'm starting to regret having published this...

Apparently Flarum only includes the content of posts for pinned posts when you ask it for discussions and their first posts. No idea if it's possible to get the first post for all discussions without doing multiple queries. It looks like this has been fixed in dev-master, which is why it's working when listing posts from this forum ?

I've made the script so it doesn't crash on missing first posts.

I'm sure the script will also break if you have a discussion from a deleted user, brace for impact if that's your case. I'm not fixing this now. I'll leave the exercise to you ?

I also added a try-catch block so it says "Oops something went wrong" if an exception is triggered in the example HTML rendering. Please handle your errors responsibly. Use a framework where possible, it's so much easier.

KazeroG

clarkwinkelmann hmm hope i didn't screw everything ! i just wanted to help by testing and reporting issue ? plz dont lost your mind this is just the beginning XD ! love yall !