Feature Help - Post to wire from Dashboard
By tomown
Hi, first post! Greetings all. I'd like logged in users to be able to post direct to the wire from the activity stream. Would it be a case of copying the input field block from the wire's php file to to the activity stream's? If so can someone help me out with where I'd find the required block and where to put it?
If this has been covered before then I'm sorry! Can you point me?
Thanks!
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You can try with this code:
<div class="mywireclass">
<?php
$form = elgg_view('forms/wire');
echo elgg_view('input/form', array('body' => $form, 'action' => "action/thewire/add"));
?>
</div>
Bulding the form is easy:
elgg_view_form('thewire/add');You just want to insert in the right place. Easiest place would be after the page/layouts/content/header view. Make a view and extend that view so yours comes after.
elgg_extend_view('page/layouts/content/header', 'my_plugin/after_header');In views/default/my_plugin/after_header.php, echo the form if you're in the "activity" context:
BTW, the thewire_tools plugin does this a little smarter: they put the form before the river filter view, which is only displayed in the river. Identical output, less overhead on other pages.
@tomown There is an existing plugin: http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1250241/3.1/custom-activity
Thanks everyone, got it done.