Extension: Blogs (and blog posts)

FakeHeal

I'm about to make a blog extension where users (or admins only, idk yet) are going to be able to post blog posts. I'm going to make a new section where those blog posts will be listed.

However, I was going through the Flarum\Post model and saw that there's a property type. Is it appropriate to use the posts table for storing blog posts? In my opinion most of the functionality overlaps with forum posts.

Edit: I haven't actually went through the whole thought process of this kind of implementation, so I'm not quite sure if I'm able to use Flarum's models or tables. ?

I'm really new to this project!

clarkwinkelmann

We're sadly (officially) missing custom discussion types at the moment, so it makes things a bit hard to re-use discussions and posts for something totally different.

But yes, you are free to create new post types, they are here for that. Custom post types are mostly used for events posts. For example the Tags extension use them to show when tags changed: https://github.com/flarum/flarum-ext-tags/blob/v0.1.0-beta.6/src/Post/DiscussionTaggedPost.php

Hope it helps. Good luck with that extension ?

FakeHeal

Are discussion types different than post types? I'm a bit confused.

luceos

FakeHeal post types allow for a different interaction and template of the post, examples of these are the EventPosts seen when modifying tags (or updating recipients on Byobu). Please know that the default replies are called comment posts internally.

Discussions can't be different at this point, you could manually implement such a feature by extending the Discussion prototype and for instance identifying the first post type. For blogs that would probably be the way I'd try to tackle it, because only the first post needs to be a post type Blog, all others are comment posts again.

FakeHeal

Thanks a lot for your fast reply!