Post New Thread from Separate PHP Script

[jaslon]

I would like to write a php script to post a weekly summary of data from a non-vBulletin based part of my site. I will run this script automatically every week using a cron-job. The data should be posted as a new thread in a News & Annoncement forum that we run as a sub-forum in vBulletin. The author of the new thread should be a "News Editor" user who is used by us moderators to post news.

Are there any examples to see how others have done something similar in PHP?

[Dismounted]

This can be done (and should be done) using the vBulletin Data Managers. Some documentation can be found in the vBulletin Manual, as well as in the articles section.

[Antivirus]

The newthread dms can be a bit overwhelming at first, so I would suggest looking up function build_new_post() in the api. It basically handles all the calls to whatever datamanager you need (most likely threadfirstpost since ypu're creating a new thread). Simply declare thread as first param, then pass it the $newpost array , foruminfo array and should work. Search for it's usage in newthread.php for example to go by.

[Dismounted]

Yes, the function build_new_post() is probably a good starting point. I forgot about that. :)