The result of this afternoon's module emergency. A recent client ran into problems with some block PHP snippets we'd written, which were admittedly written very specifically to work with the client's site and that alone. The inherent weakness in this approach was soon apparent - a few tweaks to the site post-project completion, and the snippets fall on their arses.

So here is Forum Block module, which provides a single block allowing users to post new forum topics to administrator specified forums. Its a damn sight more generic that my original snippets approach, and should work on any site with forum and taxonomy modules enabled.

Its simple, but I hope somebody may find it useful. If anyone shows interest, I'll get it submitted to Drupal projects and CVS. In the meantime, if you have any comments or problems please comment here!