How to create category in Disqus - php

Question

I need to creating some categories in Disqus. I tried to do it by Javascript but it cannot do because require POST request but JSONP only work with GET request. After that, I tried to use CURL in server-side, there are my code
public function createDisqusCategory($title, $forum)
{
$access_token = ACCESS_TOKEN;
$secret_key = SECRET_KEY;
$public_key = PUBLIC_KEY;
$url = 'https://disqus.com/api/3.0/categories/create.json';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "access_token=$access_token&api_secret=$secret_key&api_key=$public_key&forum=$forum&title=$title");
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
and it response {"code": 22, "response": "You do not have admin privileges on forum '...'"}
How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

Does your application have Default access set to "Read, write and manage forums"? If not, you'll either need to add a "scope" parameter to your POSTFIELDS, or set default access to manage forums in your application settings. Here's our documentation on scopes: http://disqus.com/api/docs/permissions/
On another note, categories in Disqus are limited to use with the API, so it's not useful in any way unless you're querying comments/threads using a custom script. If you are, I'd also advise keeping it to about 5 categories maximum, or else it can really slow down queries.