custom forums on vB3

[sturdevk]

Hi,

We are creating forums from our application(by directly inserting records into forum, thread and post). With vB 1.1, for creating a forum we are inserting a record into forum, thread and post. We also update forumpermission and allwed_in.

Now we are migrating to vB 3.6, what I need to do to create a forum from our application?, because I could see lot of changes on db with vB3.

Thanks,
S~

[Opserty]

Use the Data Managers (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/data_managers) to save anything to the database.

Direct database edits are not really advised.

Check the Articles section for more information on coding in vBulletin. Also see: vBulletin Code Standards (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/codestandards)

[RLShare]

$forumdata =& datamanager_init('Forum', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);
$forumdata->set('title', 'NAME OF NEW FORUM');
$forumdata->set('description', 'FORUM DESCRIPTION');
$forumdata->set('link', '');
$forumdata->set('displayorder', 1);
$forumdata->set('parentid', 12);
$forumdata->set('daysprune', -1);
$forumdata->set('defaultsortfield', 'lastpost');
$forumdata->set('defaultsortorder', 'desc');
$forumdata->set('showprivate', 0);
$forumdata->set('newpostemail', '');
$forumdata->set('newthreademail', '');
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','moderatenewpost', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','moderatenewthread', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','moderateattach', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','styleoverride', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','canhavepassword', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','cancontainthreads', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','active', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','allowposting', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','indexposts', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','allowhtml', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','allowbbcode', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','allowimages', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','allowsmilies', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','allowicons', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','allowratings', 0);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','countposts', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','showonforumjump', 1);
$forumdata->set_bitfield('options','prefixrequired', 1);
$forumdata->set('styleid', -1);
$forumdata->set('imageprefix', '');
$forumdata->set('password', '');

$forumdata->save();
unset($forumdata);


^^Thats how you create a new forum in code, if you are unsure of what an option is, look at the forum manager for creating new forums and see the descriptions next to those options.

[Opserty]

Its always best to work out things for yourself then to copy and paste. ;)

You can learn things which you will remember then. :)

[RLShare]

lol..yeah I guess so. It took me forever to figure out, so I figured I'd help. I guess it might have taken me forever because I was not looking through the vbulletin manual, I was looking through the files themselves.

[sturdevk]

Thank you for the responses. I have gone through DBManager and Code standards part, helped me to understand how to update data through PHP. But, we are using a Java application to update DB, Does any body has the data model(relationships) of vB3.6?

Thanks in advance,
S~