Creates a forum topic.

Return value

string The title of the newly generated topic.

2 calls to ForumBlockTest::createForumTopics()

ForumBlockTest::testActiveForumTopicsBlock in core/modules/forum/tests/src/Functional/ForumBlockTest.php

Tests the "Active forum topics" block.

ForumBlockTest::testNewForumTopicsBlock in core/modules/forum/tests/src/Functional/ForumBlockTest.php

Tests the "New forum topics" block.

File

core/modules/forum/tests/src/Functional/ForumBlockTest.php, line 161

Class

ForumBlockTest

Tests the forum blocks.

Namespace

Drupal\Tests\forum\Functional

Code

protected function createForumTopics($count = 5) {
  $topics = [];
  $date = new DrupalDateTime();
  $date->modify('-24 hours');
  for ($index = 0; $index < $count; $index++) {
    // Generate a random subject/body.
    $title = $this->randomMachineName(20);
    $body = $this->randomMachineName(200);
    // Forum posts are ordered by timestamp, so force a unique timestamp by
    // changing the date.
    $date->modify('+1 minute');
    $edit = [
      'title[0][value]' => $title,
      'body[0][value]' => $body,
      // Forum posts are ordered by timestamp, so force a unique timestamp by
      // adding the index.
'created[0][value][date]' => $date->format('Y-m-d'),
      'created[0][value][time]' => $date->format('H:i:s'),
    ];
    // Create the forum topic, preselecting the forum ID via a URL parameter.
    $this->drupalGet('node/add/forum', [
      'query' => [
        'forum_id' => 1,
      ],
    ]);
    $this->submitForm($edit, 'Save');
    $topics[] = $title;
  }
  return $topics;
}

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