Find by Slug or Create

[danielflippance]

I'm integrating NodeBB with another system and need a URL which will:

• Find a topic using only a slug, without the topic id.
• If the topic is found, show the topic page.
• If no topic is found, show the user the New Topic page and associate it with a category.

For example, I hit the URL:

/topic/this-is-a-topic?category=the-category

The browser then redirects to either

/topic/99/this-is-a-topic

or to a New Topic page for the given category:

/categories/88/the-category/new-topic

Is there any built-in way to do this? Or are there any plug-ins which will do this?

[julian]

Hm, that's fairly difficult, as the slugs are not used as a unique identifier. You can make topics with the same title, they'll just have different topics IDs.

[danielflippance]

If there were multiple topics with the same slug I would show the user a list of those topics with a summary text of the body content and allow them to click on the one they want to read.

Anyone know of some sample code to find a list of topics based on the slug?