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Hello everyone;
I have a chronoform form that post the post data into a file called JOOMLA_DIR/scripts/req.php.
The problem is that i don't know how to create an article into a specific category id, lets suppose it 49. My joomla version is 2.5.
This is the code i tested, so i did remove the $_POST variables only to make the code more easy to analyse.
Thank you for your help.

<?php
define('_JEXEC', 1);
define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/includes/defines.php');
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/includes/framework.php');
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/libraries/joomla/factory.php');
if (!defined('DS')) {	
	define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
}
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/libraries/joomla/application/component/helper.php');
jimport('joomla.application.component.modeladmin');
require_once(JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR.'/helpers/content.php');
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.'/components/com_content/models/article.php');

/*
$new_article = new ContentModelArticle();

$data = array(
    'catid' => 49,
    'title' => 'SOME TITLE',
    'introtext' => 'SOME TEXT',
    'fulltext' => 'SOME TEXT',
    'state' => 1,
);
$new_article->save($data);*/
$table = JTable::getInstance('content', 'JTable');

$data = array(
    'catid' => 49,
    'title' => 'SOME TITLE',
    'introtext' => 'SOME TEXT',
    'fulltext' => 'SOME TEXT',
    'state' => 1,
);

// Bind data
if (!$table->bind($data))
{
    $this->setError($table->getError());
    return false;
}

// Check the data.
if (!$table->check())
{
    $this->setError($table->getError());
    return false;
}

// Store the data.
if (!$table->store())
{
    $this->setError($table->getError());
    return false;
}
?>

Hi kikookik,

This doesn't look like a ChronoForms question. I don't understand what you are trying to do, why you are using this code or what the req.php file does???

Bob

Thank you for your reply. I am talking about creating a fresh new Joomla article withing data of post request.
This is already answered in this post : here
But for some reason, this procedure isn't working with my Joomla 2.5. The article isn't created.

<?php
define('_JEXEC', 1);
define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/includes/defines.php');
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/includes/framework.php');
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/libraries/joomla/factory.php');

$db	= JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "
      INSERT INTO `#__content`
      SET `title` = '{My title}',
      `alias` = 'article-56',
      `fulltext` = 'body',
      `state` = '1',
      `catid` = '49',
      `created` = '".date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."',
  ";

$db     ->setQuery($query);
$db     ->query();
?>

This code didn't create any article in the category id=49 why ?

Hi kikookik,

These two lines shouldn't have spaces in them:

$db->setQuery($query);
$db->query();

Why not use the Submit Article action?

Bob

Because, i want to create articles based on a predefined values, not random data that user insert if using edit button in the frontpage. So for the code it still not working. This is an update :

<?php
define('_JEXEC', 1);
define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/includes/defines.php');
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/includes/framework.php');
require_once(JPATH_BASE.'/libraries/joomla/factory.php');

$db	= &JFactory::getDBO();
$query	= $db->getQuery(true);
$columns = array('title', 'alias', 'introtext', 'state', 'fulltext', 'catid');
$values	 = array('Some text', 'last-form-article-458', 'this is', 0, 'A descri about, so start here.', 49);
$query->insert($db->quoteName('#__content'))->columns($db->quoteName($columns))->values(implode(',', $values));
$db->setQuery($query);
$db->query();
?>

Hi kiookik,

Sorry I can't debug your custom code for you :-( I don't know what $query->insert() does; that's not a function that I am familiar with.

I suggest that you add debug code to output the query so you can see exactly what you are building.

Bob