Which CMS would you choose if you wanted to create a Q&A forum?

[baris]

@Tanner You can change the default post order in ACP.

[a_5mith]

@Tanner Wouldn't that require the ability to upvote topics? Unless you just displayed the number of votes that the first post has.

{posts.index} returns 0 for the first poster inside a topic. You could then get the {posts.votes} of that post and display it, however this information would need to be parsed into the api that topiclist uses (which it currently isn't), perhaps as a feature request, being able to specify certain parts of an api in different pages. Pipes and dreams.

[psychobunny]

being able to specify certain parts of an api in different pages.

you could $.get('/api/another/page')

[a_5mith]

@psychobunny Good thinking Batman.

[Jelena]

Thanks @a_5mith for pointing me to this topic. So I have a question:

• On the category page, where the topics are displayed, I want to add content of the first post into topic. This is the failed idea http://screencast.com/t/q7FpL5nN3 . I couldn't do that because in the api of that category page there is no "posts" value. Could I make that happen with $.get('/api/another/page') ? ( If yes, it would be nice if someone could explain that a bit deeper. ) Or I need some other solution?

[psychobunny]

So to answer your question specifically - so every page has a designated API route as well. Take for example this page, which is

Which CMS would you choose if you wanted to create a Q&A forum?

What is the most modern and feature-rich Q&A-Creator? EX: Discussing forums such as: nodeBB QandA forums such as askbot What is a Q&A: I mean something like...

NodeBB Community (community.nodebb.org)

Just append /api at the start, and you can get it's data like so:

https://community.nodebb.org/api/topic/2142/which-cms-would-you-choose-if-you-wanted-to-create-a-q-a-forum/

So from your plugin/theme, it's fairly simple to just do an API call to get it's data with $.get

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For your case, it's a bit more complicated because then you'd be making 20 API calls per page, so I actually wouldn't recommend this method. Here's a sample library.js for your theme (make sure that your NodeBB is completely up-to-date, as I only just added this hook).

NodeBB plugin - adding main post data to category view

NodeBB plugin - adding main post data to category view - library.js

Gist (gist.github.com)

This will add the mainPost data directly into the category view - so in your template you'd be able to do something like {topics.mainPost.content}

@trevor you might find this useful as well.

@Jelena, for further reading you might find this set of articles useful. Hope I make sense here, GL

[Jelena]

@psychobunny I followed your instructions above and as you can see here http://screencast.com/t/2sNjFqWK I succeeded to add mainPost data in my category view api. Then In category.tpl I added this code <div class="topicContent">{topics.mainPost.content}</div> and the rest of the code is like in vanilla theme category.tpl .Still something isn't right, I got this as a result of what I did http://screencast.com/t/T7AYotKM .

[baris]

Change this line to topic.mainPost = mainPost[0]; and I think it should work.

[Jelena]

@baris Thanks! That worked ^^

[trevor]

Thanks @psychobunny @baris!

[Jelena]

@psychobunny @baris Btw, how to make this hook work on recent topics, or profile page? I tried to add in my plugin.json this:

{ "hook": "filter:recent.get", "method": "addPostData" } but it didn't worked. Can I apply this hook to any page I need just with changing those filters or it is not that easy?

[reaon]

And what about the Q&A?! the topic has been hijacked

I still need to know Is there any Q&A CMS with a modern design?
Is it possible to design a theme for nodeBB to make it a Q&A system?

[psychobunny]

Someone's tried it before: http://www.nutritionask.com/

With a bunch of widgets, changes in the design. And now you can sort by upvotes too so it's probably much more possible to do a Q&A style site than it was a month ago when you first asked