Hey guys, I'm having a very fundamental issue getting this to work.

As soon as I do the require global.php line, my varibles don't work... by that i mean the php page below prints only Test:

$FORUM_ID is blank even though its decalred...

if i remove the require global.php line its fine.... what gives?

forum_id ends up blank... if i comment out the global.php, it prints properly... any ideas?

1. what version of PHP are you running, 4 or 5?

2. is global.php called from the function?

I guess you got register_globals=on
For the sake of security, vBulletin unsets all global variables created by register_globals=on, and there is no way (well ... except changing some basic internal functions would be necessary) to stop it from doing that :)

Best suggestion: Code without relying on register_globals :)

I need to take this rss feed and use it for auto new threads.

http://news.google.com/news?q=mariju...F-8&output=rss

I use vb3.5 rc3.

how would i do this?

It's not working off a cron job any more but does work when called locally. Compared to the other problems I'm having it's not exactly a catastrophe. Any ideas?

artonex:
Not a clue if this will work in vB 3.5.0. Gotta get into the code more first.

mtrac:
what vB version?

3.5.0 (Gold)

I was hoping for an update to this. It still creates threads, but:

- They're created under the username of the person that pushes the "create" button, rather than the user specified by the script.
- The threads automatically go into the moderation queue, rather than appearing on the site for other users to respond to.

Thanks.

blast from the past :)

Could've sworn there's a couple of plugins now that auto-create threads now, could be wrong. If you can't find them, I'll dig into the code (maybe this weekend) and see what I can come up with. As you can see from this thread, I pretty much grabbed some vBulletin functions and slapped them together. I'm guessing these functions have changed, and so this broke. Probably have to re-smush the vBulletin code together :)

Yeah, that last thought didn't make much sense to me either.

OK. In case anyone else needs this code....

This worked for me with vBullentin version 3.5.4

The new thread was created successfully -even when I was not loggin in.

<?php
require_once('./global.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_newpost.php');
require_once('./includes/class_dm.php');
require_once('./includes/class_dm_threadpost.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_databuild.php');

$forumid = 19;
$userid = 1;
$title = 'The first autopost!';
$pagetext = 'More details here.';

$threaddm =& datamanager_init('Thread_FirstPost', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');

$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid);
$threaddm->set_info('forum', $foruminfo);

$threaddm->set('forumid', $forumid);
$threaddm->set('userid', $userid);
//$threaddm->set('user', 'SGD DESIGNS');
$threaddm->set('title', $title);
$threaddm->set('pagetext', $pagetext);
$threaddm->set('allowsmilie', 1);
$threaddm->set('visible', 1);
$threaddm->set('dateline', TIMENOW);
$threaddm->save();
?>