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.
Ich möchte einen Einbettungscode für ein Kontaktformular auf einer anderen Website erstellen, sodass nach dem Ausfüllen des Formulars durch den Benutzer automatisch ein Thema in Discourse erstellt wird oder eine Nachricht an einen Administrator oder Moderator gesendet wird.