[Plugin: Post From Site] Post to a specific category working?

This was my quick solution to get it to work the way I needed it to (posting to 1 category, within a page, no popup). I haven’t checked it for compatibility with anything else.
shortcode used — [post-from-site cat=’4′]

post-from-site.class.php
This is line 396
$out .= apply_filters( 'pfs_before_submit', '', $idtext );
After that line, I added the following
$out .= "<input type='hidden' name='cat' value='" .$cat. "' />\n";

pfs-submit.php
This is line 25
$title = $pfs_data['title'];
After that line, I added the following
$category = $pfs_data['cat'];

This is line 142
$postarr['post_type'] = $pfs_options['post_type'];
After that line, I added the following
$postarr['post_category'] = array($category);

Hi! Can you help me? I want to specify a category that comes from a variable, so that the published post is assigned only to that specific category.

I get the category in the template I’m calling the form vía php (not shortcode).

I manage to get the category I want getting it from the slug like this:

$idObj = get_category_by_slug($cat_slug);
$id = $idObj->term_id;

Then I tried:

$postarr['post_category'] = array($id);

But the variable does not seems to get there in the form 🙁

Can it be achieved sending a parameter here?:

$pfs = new PostFromSite(0,'',false); $pfs->form();

Thanks a lot!!!

I solved it because it was irritating and I needed for it to work, so I could be lazy and not have to mark categories after people posted. =D

Did you try the other 2 methods that I posted?

Oh I just solved it! 😀

I passed it like this:

$pfs = new PostFromSite(0,'',false, $cat); $pfs->form();

Thanks for your help and without your previous posts I could have never reached the solution 🙂

Hi, I used rt’s technique to get it to post to a specific category, and it works, but on the form itself there is still a field for people to select what category they want to post to. How do I get rid of that?

Hi rt, Excellent news that you’ve managed to get the category on the short code to work, my site was crying out for this facility.

I’ve followed your instructions:

post-from-site.class.php
This is line 396
$out .= apply_filters( ‘pfs_before_submit’, ”, $idtext );
After that line, I added the following
$out .= “<input type=’hidden’ name=’cat’ value='” .$cat. “‘ />\n”;

pfs-submit.php
This is line 25
$title = $pfs_data[‘title’];
After that line, I added the following
$category = $pfs_data[‘cat’];

This is line 142
$postarr[‘post_type’] = $pfs_options[‘post_type’];
After that line, I added the following
$postarr[‘post_category’] = array($category);

Used shortcode [post-from-site cat=’4′]

and i’m not getting the category to assign.

I need this to work on the shortcode as I have numberious areas that require Posts to relate to different categories but I don’t want the category dropdown on teh form.

I’m using WordPress 3.3.1 and Post from Site 3.0.1

Any assistance would be greatfully received or a full code for post-from-site.class.php and pfs-submit.php as i’m not sure why it’s not working.

Mike