Create new Thread programatically

[MrManager]

I would like to add a commenting system to my website that integrates with my SMF. My idea was to create a new thread for every item on my website and then list the latest posts in that thread as "comments" on that item. The commenting itself would take place in the forums themselves, so there is no user account integration or posting form on my site required.

To do this, I need some sort of API function to create the thread and one to get the latest posts from a given thread. I already checked SSI.php, but it doesn't seem to have anything like this.

Is there a way to do this, ideally without installing additional mods?

[MrManager]

I guess one option would be to create a custom action (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Add_a_custom_action_using_integration_hooks) and then calling createPost (http://support.simplemachines.org/function_db/index.php?action=view_function;id=323) from there. Would this be a good way? Are there modifications that already add this functionality, so I wouldn't have to write it myself?

[vbgamer45]

You would use SSI.php included on top of your website then call the createpost function to create entries in your forum with the data that you pass to that function.

[MrManager]

The thing is I don't have access to the filesystem of my forums from the other site. So all communication would have to happen over HTTP (REST).

[Illori]

to be able to do that would be a major security risk if it was even possible.

[MrManager]

Well of course the requests would have to be authenticated somehow.

[Kindred]

but they are not....   there is no authentication like that built into the system because it was never intended to be used cross-sites like that.

[Kays]

But is a back end really needed?

If the page is just HTML, It can be posted on the boards using the html tag. Then a display page can be created using SSI.php. The first post can be displayed using ssi_BoardNews()  and the replies or comments can be pulled using a modified ssi function or by a separate query.