Delete Thread From Code

[LeaderGL]

Hi, do you know how can i delete a thread from an external script? (also using vB API).

[OFF TOPIC] Do you, also, know how modify a post? [/OFF TOPIC]

regards,
LeaderGL

[tgreer]

I believe you'd use DataManagers (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/data_managers) for this. Perhaps someone who has posted about datamanagers in the private Coders Discussion would be willing to step over here and provide some insight?

[LeaderGL]

do you have some code example on how to delete thread?

[tgreer]

Not that I've written and tested, no. However, the editpost.php file contains this code:

$threadman =& datamanager_init('Thread', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_STANDARD, 'threadpost');
$threadman->set_existing($threadinfo);
$threadman->delete($foruminfo['countposts'], $removaltype, array('userid' => $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], 'username' => $vbulletin->userinfo['username'], 'reason' => $vbulletin->GPC['reason'], 'keepattachments' => $vbulletin->GPC['keepattachments']));
unset($threadman);

[LeaderGL]

ok, and how i create $threadinfo and $foruminfo ?

i've threadid to delete...

[tgreer]

Yep, that's the question! I don't have a good answer... I'm exploring this at the same time as you. I'd start by carefully looking at the code in editpost.php. Start at line #982.

Maybe threadid is all you need?

Looking at "class_dm_threadpost.php", there is a "delete" function for threads. You can see the signature for that function on line 1182 of that file. It looks like you can just set the $threadid variable for the thread you want to delete.