I was wondering is anyone had any ideas on how to have a new topic posted to iKonboard when I submit a new story to my website. Of note: The server is local to me, so I can make any number of modifications. The site is here, if that helps.

Somebody else was just asking about this recently, I'm not sure much came out of it.  You may want to poke around the last month and see if you can find the post(s).

Here is what I was thinking of.

Thanks for the link. It was helpful in that it pointed out that the posters thought could not be carried through on. It looks as thought MT -> iB is not exactly realistic. So, I'm thinking that iB -> MT would. Here's my thought.

There is a news headline function in iB that allows you to output to a template that is generated based on the code in the template and whatever the new topic contains. It then writes that to a news file. The template is fully modifable [?].

What about formating that template to output to a blogger-compatible format that could then be read by MT? The problem I see is that there's no way to get MT to read that file, or is there? I'm sure I could whip something up that uses AutoMate 4, but that's really just a kludge.

Thoughts?

This has been done with MT and phpBB2, but I am not sure which direction it was done in (I think phpBB --> MT)

The site is www.pocketpcthoughts.com, but the webmaster hasn't published how he did it.

medic119, I posted in the other thread about MT-forum integration; how do you know http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com uses MT?  Maybe I missed it, but I don't see any indication that it is running MT.

regas, are you just looking for a portal frontpage that integrates with your forum?  Perhaps you don't really need to integrate with MT.  phpBB, iBForums, and vBulletin each have mods that allow you to generate a "portal page."  In fact, it would look something like www.pocketpcthoughts.com, except I haven't seen a portal mod that takes news content from multiple forums like pocketpcthoughts.com.

That's a good question. No, I'm not looking to use another solution over MT to manage PDA HandyMan, but I would like to have new stories automatically added as a new topic in a particular Topic in iB. Though I've not started on it yet, what I'm thinking is that I will post the item in iB, which will output that to the news file. I'll modify that template to be a blogger compliant entry, and then... I'm not sure after that. It will likely have something to do with AutoMate 4.

If anyone has better ideas, I'd love to hear them.  :)

I see.  I guess the core of your site is MT rather than the forum.  What I was thinking was using the forum as the core (archive, searching, etc.) and the portal as something based off of the forum.

No, that was a good thought. I should have made it clearer. I have a load of categories and my coding is moving in the direction of a near total MT-based system. Its been hard enough so I don't want to change in mid-stream.

Here's a question: How do those posting utilities for blogger and the like work? Is the entire post submitted via URL? Could I format a file to be parsed through a form method?

Thanks!

I remember when he switched from greymatter to MT.  Its part of the reason I decided on MT.  As far as I know he hasn't changed since.