| Eliasen |
05-17-2011 07:52 AM |
How to send a PM from outside vbulletin
-Solved-
EDIT 30/07-2011: Sorry everyone! I completely forgot to show how I solved this issue, so here it is!
I cannot remember where I found this, and I take no credit for this code.
First you need a php file called "pm-script.php" (or whatever you feel like).
Then past this code into this newly created file:
PHP Code:
<?php
function vbulletin_send_pm(
$site, $sender_username, $sender_password,
$recipient, $title = '', $message = '', $iconid = '0'
){
$cookiefile = tempnam("/tmp", "cookies");
/* create a temporary file to store cookies.
this should work on most systems and is more
flexible than specifying path explicitly */
$ch = curl_init();
//General options
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); //For debugging
//Masquerade as Firefox
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); //Follow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiefile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiefile);
//PHP >= 5.1.0
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
/** *************************************************
Log In
****************************************************/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site.'login.php?do=login');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $site.'index.php');
/* The fields of the login form.*/
$postfields = array(
'vb_login_username' => $sender_username,
'vb_login_password' => '', //Interestingly enough, this doesn't need to be set.
//'cookieuser' => '1', //"Remember me"
's' => '',
'securitytoken' => 'guest',
'do' => 'login',
'vb_login_md5password' => md5($sender_password), //hash the password
'vb_login_md5password_utf' => md5($sender_password), //UTF? Looks the same to me.
);
$postfields = http_build_query($postfields, '', '&'); //PHP >= 5.1.2
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
//There will be a redirection link if the login was successful
if (preg_match('/index.php\?s=(\w{32})/', $result, $matches)){
$s_key = $matches[1]; //not used
} else {
return false;
}
/** *************************************************
Retrieve the PM page to get the security token
****************************************************/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site.'private.php?do=newpm');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
if (preg_match('/<input\s+type="hidden"\s+name="securitytoken"\s+value="([\w\-]+)"\s*\/?>/i', $html, $matches)){
$security_token = $matches[1];
} else {
return false;
}
/** *************************************************
Send the PM
****************************************************/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site.'private.php?do=insertpm');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $site.'private.php?do=newpm');
/* PM form fields */
$postfields = array(
'recipients' => $recipient,
'bccrecipients' => '',
'title' => $title,
'message' => $message,
'wysiwyg' => '0',
'iconid' => $iconid,
's' => '', //might need to use $s_key here
'securitytoken' => $security_token,
'do' => 'insertpm',
'pmid' => '',
'forward' => '',
'button' => 'Submit Message',
'savecopy' => '0', //save the message in "Sent" folder
'parseurl' => '1', //automatically parse URLs in the message
);
$postfields = http_build_query($postfields, '', '&');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
//Note : I don't verify if the message was actually sent.
//If everything went well so far it probably was.
/** ****************************************************
Done. Close connections and kill the cookie-file.
********************************************************/
curl_close ($ch);
unlink($cookiefile);
return true;
}
?>
To send a PM from a non-VB page, include this php file in your non-VB page, and use the following function to send a pm:
PHP Code:
vbulletin_send_pm("http://url-to-your-forum.com/forum/", "from-username", "user-password", "Recipient-user-ID", "PM Title!", "PM Content");
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