{"id":187,"date":"2009-10-17T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T03:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peter-johnson.com.au\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-10-17T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T03:54:33","slug":"posting-to-a-forum-programmatically-using-delphi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peter-johnson.com.au\/index.php\/2009\/10\/17\/posting-to-a-forum-programmatically-using-delphi\/","title":{"rendered":"Posting to a forum programmatically using Delphi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a member of a web site where we run various games in the forums and for several that can be tedious to keep track of manually I&#8217;ve written some code in Borland Delphi to automate the task. The forum itself is phpBB and I use the web browser component included with Delphi to edit posts directly in the forum. Being able to post to a website as though a user submitted a form is handy for these sorts to tasks where you don&#8217;t have access to the underlying forum database. I&#8217;ve posted the more interesting parts of the code that format the request and setup the correct headers:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: vb; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">var\n  strData: String;\n  PostData, Headers: OleVariant;\n...................\nstrData := 'message=' + HTTPEncode(MessageData) + '&amp;notify=on&amp;mode=editpost&amp;p=' + IntToStr(PostID) + '&amp;post=+Post+';\n\nPostData := VarArrayCreate(&#x5B;0, Length(strData) - 1], varByte);\n\nfor i := 1 to Length(strData) do\n  PostData&#x5B;i-1] := Ord(strData&#x5B;i]);\n\nHeaders := 'Content-Type: application\/x-www-form-urlencoded' + #10#13;\n\nWebBrowser.Navigate('http:\/\/example.com\/posting.php?mode=reply&amp;t=' + MainTopicID.Text, EmptyParam, EmptyParam, PostData, Headers);\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a member of a web site where we run various games in the forums and for several that can be tedious to keep track of manually I&#8217;ve written some code in Borland Delphi to automate the task. 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