I want visitors to be able post a simple note or question without having to register, kind of like an integrated “Contact Us” form or “Guestbook”. So I was considering using the API to set up a simple form that creates topics as a shared “anon” user. I was also thinking I could make a plugin that stores a different name per post that is displayed instead of the shared username.
Any technical reason this wouldn’t work?
You can set up a category that allows creating topics via email and then have some “contact us” forum that emails to that (preferably secret) address.
I suppose I could fake a POST to the same endpoint which I believe would create a “staged” user. There needs to be a way to avoid sending any emails to that staged user though.
Another option might be to create a new user and topic via the API, then delete that user. According to this it’s possible to delete a user and retain the post, but I can’t find any details about how that works or where it happens in the code.
I wanna create contact form embed code other website, after user complete form and auto post a topic Discourse or send to Message admin or moderator?