User API

[kmon]

I moderate for a site that needs its users to upload a lot of attachments.  While it has been setup to allow 40 attachments per post it is a time consuming process to click on each browse button and add the file you want.  Because there is little to no browser support by the major browsers (IE, Firefox, etc) for multiple file selection, we are looking at other ways to get our attachments uploaded.

One of the things we thought of is that maybe we could use something other than a browser to post the messages.  For this, we would of course need some API to talk to the forums. 

So, my question is this...  Is there some way (through XML for example) to integrate with the forums without a standard browser?  Through a Java or Win32 app for example.  What I would like is to be able to make http calls to the forum and get XML results back with forum/topic lists, user lists, etc.

[Trekkie101]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.msg198119#msg198119

Theres a lot of XML stuff in SMF, its just not visible without knowing where to look.

But im not sure if that will help you.

[kmon]

That's a start, but I'm looking for something a lot more comprehensive.  I'd like to be able to get the full list of forums and topics within each forum, the contents of topics, etc.  Plus, I'd like to be able to post messages to the board through XML commands.