Forum ID in Post object

[Turbotailz]

I'd like to be able to differentiate where a post is submitted by checking the forum it was posted in. I feel like adding Forum ID to the Post object would be a good addition. May as well add Topic ID to it as well.

[Daniel F]

You can already access the topic by using $comment->item() and the Item class has a method called container() which would return you then the forum object

[Turbotailz]

Sorry, I should have mentioned this is for the REST API.

[Daniel F]

The post response returns the topic id , so you could use a second REST request to the topic endpoint which will return the topic and also forum details

[Martin A.]

In the post return, you'll get the item ID. You can do an additional call to "/forums/topics/{id}", where you'll get info about the forum too.

Or if this is for your own site, you can create a hook that overloads \IPS\Content\Comment::apiOutput(), and add the forum ID to what it returns.
 

public function apiOutput( \IPS\Member $authorizedMember = NULL )
{
	$parentReturn = parent::apiOutput( $authorizedMember );
	$parentReturn['forum'] = $this->item()->container()->apiOutput( $authorizedMember );

	return $parentReturn;
}

Untested.

[Turbotailz]

Oh right, I didn't realise the item_id was the topic ID. This should be fine, though I don't really want to be making multiple API requests but I'll take what I can get!

Thanks :)