[toucan42]

Interestingly I am back at the error:

That username is already in use or does not meet the administrator's standards. If you are admintw42 and you have forgotten your password, click here.

However we are further down the code in class_dm_threadpost.php.

the two lines of code:

PHP Code:

$threaddm->set('postuserid', $userinfo['userid']);
$threaddm->set('postusername', $userinfo['username']); 


are erroring out with the message :

Fatal error: Field postusername is not defined in $validfields in class vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost in /includes/class_dm.php on line 485

Looking at the documentation at http://members.vbulletin.com/api/ on vb_datamanager_thread_firstpost it says about userid and username:

'username'=>array(TYPE_STR,REQ_NO,VF_METHOD),// maps to thread.postusername
'userid'=>array(TYPE_UINT,REQ_NO,VF_METHOD),// maps to thread.postuserid

So should $userinfo for these two assignments be set to something from a different variable representing threadinfo? I'm so sorry I am striggling with this and appreciate the folks who have been pitching in to help me understand.

--------------- Added at 13:07 ---------------

ok here is my script currently and still facing the error:

That username is already in use or does not meet the administrator's standards. If you are admintw42 and you have forgotten your password, click here.

PHP Code:

<?php
// include backend
require_once('global.php');

// input
$name = $_GET['name'];
$lat = $_GET['lat'];
$lon = $_GET['lon'];
$uid = intval($_GET['uid']);
$gid = $_GET['gid'];
$desc = $_GET['desc'];
$phone = $_GET['phone'];
$addr = $_GET['addr'];
$addr2 = $_GET['addr2'];
$city = $_GET['city'];
$state = $_GET['state'];
$zip = $_GET['zip'];
$cat = $_GET['cat'];

// fetch userinfo
if (!$userinfo = fetch_userinfo($uid))
{
    die("Invalid User!");
}

// initialize datamanager
$threaddm =& datamanager_init('Thread_FirstPost', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');
$threadinfo = array();

// set data
$forumtouse = 57;

$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo ($forumtouse);

$threaddm->set('forumid', $forumtouse);

$threaddm->set('userid', $userinfo['userid']);
$threaddm->set('username', $userinfo['username']);

//$threaddm->set('postusername', $userinfo['username']);
//$threaddm->set('postuserid', $userinfo['userid']);

$threaddm->set('title', 'Some Title');
$threaddm->set('pagetext', $desc);
$threaddm->set('open', 1);
$threaddm->set('allowsmilie', 1);
$threaddm->set('visible', 1);

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

$threaddm->set_info('thread', $threadinfo);  

// error checks
$threaddm->pre_save();
if (!empty($threaddm->errors))
{
    echo ($threaddm->errors);
}

// save
$threadid = $threaddm->save();
unset($threaddm);

// rebuild caches
require_once('includes/functions_databuild.php');
build_thread_counters($threadid);
build_forum_counters($forumtouse);   
?>

This has been blocking me for a week. I am hoping someone can help me figure out why it isn't creating the new thread.