Is there a way to go from form to Article?

Before I waste any time and install the component, I was wondering if there was anyway to go from form to article? Using a template?

Like I wanted people to submit poetry to a section of my joomla 1.5 site.

Once they hit the submit button I would like for the poem to appear as an article in a specific format like:

Poem name= article title & altertnate title

Article Body = Poem + sumitted by <name> + etc.etc.etc

Can it be done with this?

Hi fbc,

It's possible but not 'built-in'. You;d need to find or write the code to save the results into the articles table.

Bob

Awesome!! thanks.. I will look for the code..

any hints of where to start looking? article name?

Hi fbc,

There's been a recent thread about posting from a form into the FireBoard forums. The code there would be a good starting place, then you'll need to dig into the Joomla code to find out which tables need to be updated to post a new article.

Bob

great! I'll check it out.

This a piece of code another program uses to create content in joomla. What would I need to alter to make it write the form data to jcontent?

	$db =& JFactory::getDBO();

	//extraemos la noticia

	$query = "SELECT * FROM #__periodico_noticia WHERE IDNoticia = '$nid'";

	$db->setQuery( $query );

	$noticia = $db->loadObject();

	

	//construimos la consulta para insertarla como contenido en Joomla

	$query = "INSERT INTO #__content(title,alias,title_alias,introtext,sectionid,catid,state,created,publish_up) VALUES ("

		. "'$noticia->Titulo',"

		. "'$noticia->Titulo',"

		. "'$noticia->Link',"

		. "'$noticia->Descripcion',"

		. "'$sid',"

		. "'$cid',"

		. "'$noticia->published',"

		. "'$noticia->Fecha_de_publicacion',"

		. "'$noticia->Fecha_de_publicacion'"

		. ")";

	$db->setQuery( $query );

	

	//ejecutamos la consulta

	$db->query();

	//si todo va bien devolvemos cero 

	return 0;

OK In the form html area I got this:

input class="inputbox" name="title"
 id="title" size="50" maxlength="100" value=""
 type="text"

in the On Submit code - before sending email section i got:

 $db =& JFactory::getDBO(); 
    $query = "INSERT INTO #__content(title,alias,title_alias,introtext,sectionid,catid,state,created,publish_up) VALUES (" 
 
        . "'$title'," 
 
        . "'$title'," 
 
        . "'$title'," 
 
        . "'$introtext'," 
 
        . "'3'," 
 
        . "'$catid'," 
 
        . "'1'," 
 
        . "'2008-05-04 20:16:44'," 
 
        . "'2008-05-04 20:16:44'" 
 
        . ")"; 
 
    $db->setQuery( $query ); 
 
     
 
    //execute the query
 
    $db->query(); 
 
    //if everything goes well the result is zero  
 
    return 0;

And it just creates a record with the dates section id and correct state, but all the other fields are blank. The variables are not being passed. What should I do? Any recommendations?

OK it all works now, I figured it all out. Now I'm trying to get the text entered into the form to retain it's formatting. When it's saved to the table, it's saved as one long string. No linefeeds or nothing.. Just one long string of line together with no carriage returns or nothing.

Hi fbc,

Please take a look at post #7707 in this thread

Bob