I have written a function to insert a post into a private member forum, but when I click on the topic it says it is empty?

$post_parent = 0;
$forum_id = 5485; // Membership Forum 5485

$topic_data = array(
//’post_parent’ => $post_parent,
‘post_author’ => 1,
‘post_title’ => $output_title,
‘post_content’ => “<div class=’application-form’>$output_content</div>”,
‘comment_status’ => ‘closed’,
‘menu_order’ => 0
);

$topic_meta = array(
‘forum_id’ => $forum_id
);

$topic_id = bbp_insert_topic( $topic_data, $topic_meta );
bbp_stick_topic($topic_id , false);

WP v5.5.1
BBP v2.6.5
BP v6.3.0

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 3 months ago]

your content is the contents of the variable $output_content which is not defined in the code above, so the function would either fail and do nothing or make contents empty

[@marigoldcoop Participant 4 years, 3 months ago]

Sorry, this is a simplification, it is indeed defined above this block, but even if I give it a content value of ‘Test’ I still get “Oh, bother! No topics were found here.”

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 3 months ago]

suspect post status and post parent (which you have commented out) might be the issue

'post_status' => bbp_get_public_status_id(),

and post parent should be the forum it belongs to, so $forum_id in your code

'post_parent' => $forum_id,

[@marigoldcoop Participant 4 years, 3 months ago]

Yes! thank you. That did the trick.

I was under the impression that as it was a new topic it would be set to 0, and the forum id would be set in the meta args.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 3 months ago]

it needs both !