I'm currently evaluating UNA because our existing platform no longer meets our needs. So far, UNA appears to be a good fit, but there's a crucial feature on our current platform that I'm unsure is available in UNA: the ability to automatically create posts/discussions via public API.
In our current setup, we create content on a separate system and use a cron job to post it to our platform via API . Is there a way to achieve this in UNA? If not, is there any documentation explaining the relationships between entities that need to be populated when creating a post/discussion? This is the main obstacle preventing us from transitioning to UNA.
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Hello @Olu Ade 👋
There is an API module. I haven't tackled that one yet, so I have no information outside it is possible. Basically you can access the internal service points using the API. Once you understand how that all works, its easy. It took me a while to wrap my head around service calls (coming from last 10 years of Android development, service calls is a whole different thing 😁). Anyhow..... Here is the stuff to get you started:
https://unacms.com/wiki/Dev-API
And a more in depth breakdown of the calls:
https://ci.una.io/docs/public_api.html
Be advised, API is a pro app: https://unacms.com/view-product/api
O
@Wise Many thanks for your comments. I'll check the links and see if I can figure this out. I really appreciate your help.
When you do, I would also appreciate an update on your progress.
O
I haven't made much progress on this. I've gone through the documentation without any luck. I really need this functionality but I'm currently stuck.😢
There needs to be a lot more example scripts. No one knows how to use this stuff, except UNA.
We've just updated UNA API documentation describing new API functionality how to authenticate with secret key
https://unacms.com/wiki/Dev-API#api-keys-authentication
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Thank you for your response. I was able to resolve the issue after addressing a PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /home/ext/sites/una/modules/base/general/classes/BxBaseModGeneralFormsEntryHelper.php:196.
Thank you for the feedback, could you please more details on how to reproduce the issue and what is your UNA version ?
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UNA Version: 14.0.0-A3
When using the curl example on the DEV API page:
An error occurs:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /home/ext/sites/una/modules/base/general/classes/BxBaseModGeneralFormsEntryHelper.php:196 Stack trace: #0 /home/ext/sites/una/modules/base/general/classes/BxBaseModGeneralModule.php(1230): BxBaseModGeneralFormsEntryHelper->addData() #1 /home/ext/sites/una/inc/classes/BxDolRequest.php(132): BxBaseModGeneralModule->serviceEntityAdd() #2 /home/ext/sites/una/inc/classes/BxDolRequest.php(57): BxDolRequest::_perform() #3 /home/ext/sites/una/inc/classes/BxDolService.php(51): BxDolRequest::processAsService() #4 /home/ext/sites/una/api.php(72): BxDolService::call() #5 {main} thrown in /home/ext/sites/una/modules/base/general/classes/BxBaseModGeneralFormsEntryHelper.php on line 196Temporary Fix:
To resolve this issue, check for the type of the
$aValuesvariable passed to theaddDatamethod. If it is not an array, cast it to an array.In
/home/ext/sites/una/modules/base/general/classes/BxBaseModGeneralFormsEntryHelper.php, modify theaddDatamethod as follows:public function addData($iProfile, $aValues, $sDisplay = false) { if (!is_array($aValues)) { $aValues = (array) $aValues; } // Rest of the method implementation }This modification ensures that
$aValuesis always treated as an array, preventing the fatal error and allowing the method to process the data correctly.