[White_Snake]

okay, here goes the full plugin, with some extra stuff i added

hook location: newpost_complete

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['referrerid'] > 0 AND $foruminfo['countposts'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['posts'] + 1 == 50){
$ref_raw = $db->query_read("SELECT username FROM user WHERE userid = ".$vbulletin->userinfo['referrerid']);
$ref_nam = $db->fetch_array($ref_raw);

$pmdm =& datamanager_init('PM', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);
        $pmdm->set('fromuserid', 1);
        $pmdm->set('fromusername', Administrator);
        $pmdm->set('title', 'Congratulations');
        $pmdm->set('message', "congratulations! you have referred the user ".$vbulletin->userinfo['username']." and he has made 50 posts");
        $pmdm->set_recipients($ref_nam['username'], $permissions);
        $pmdm->set('dateline', TIMENOW);

        $pmdm->pre_save();

        // process errors if there are any
        $errors = @array_merge($errors, $pmdm->errors);

        if (!empty($errors))
        {
                $errorlist = '';
                foreach ($pmdm->errors AS $index => $error)
                {
                    $errorlist .= "<li>$error</li>";
                }
        }
        else
        {
            // everything's good!
            $pmdm->save();
        }
} 


the weird part about this code is that i have tried it on a separate php file under the same directory as the forums that calls includes the file global.php and the whole thing works fine in that separated file, as well i tried to see if this hook had any conflict with others, so i disabled everything and still the problem persist

thanks!