Wordpress Forms - php

Question

I was wondering if it is at all possible to write a php file that will take a form submission from an external server and add the submission to wordpress as a blog post. The file should return a post->ID. Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to have the form processed on the remote server, you can remotely add the submission to WordPress via XMLRPC.
An example as follows:
<?php
class XMLRPClientWordPress
{
var $XMLRPCURL = "";
var $UserName = "";
var $PassWord = "";
// constructor
public function __construct($xmlrpcurl, $username, $password)
{
$this->XMLRPCURL = $xmlrpcurl;
$this->UserName = $username;
$this->PassWord = $password;
}
function send_request($requestname, $params)
{
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request($requestname, $params);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->XMLRPCURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
$results = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $results;
}
function create_post($title,$body,$category,$keywords='',$encoding='UTF-8')
{
$title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
$keywords = htmlentities($keywords,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
$content = array(
'title'=>$title,
'description'=>$body,
'mt_allow_comments'=>0, // 1 to allow comments
'mt_allow_pings'=>0, // 1 to allow trackbacks
'post_type'=>'post',
'mt_keywords'=>$keywords,
'categories'=>array($category)
);
$params = array(0,$this->UserName,$this->PassWord,$content,true);
return $this->send_request('metaWeblog.newPost',$params);
}
function create_page($title,$body,$encoding='UTF-8')
{
$title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
$content = array(
'title'=>$title,
'description'=>$body
);
$params = array(0,$this->UserName,$this->PassWord,$content,true);
return $this->send_request('wp.newPage',$params);
}
function display_authors()
{
$params = array(0,$this->UserName,$this->PassWord);
return $this->send_request('wp.getAuthors',$params);
}
function sayHello()
{
$params = array();
return $this->send_request('demo.sayHello',$params);
}
}
if(trim($_POST['subject'])=='' || trim($_POST['content'])==''){
die('All fields are required.');
}
$xmlrpc = new XMLRPClientWordPress("http://yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php" , "username" , "password");
$xmlrpc->create_post( mb_convert_encoding(stripslashes($_POST['subject']), 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'), mb_convert_encoding(htmlentities(stripslashes($_POST['content']), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'), 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'), 1);
echo 'Post successful!';
?>