[kh99]

Originally Posted by Medi0cr3

Thanks kh99,
The I saw the do:update thing last night as I was cruisin through the code. I'm just not sure how to supply information to the datamanager and haven't yet tried to utilize it via PHP only. It looks like it should be included in my custom page and then supplied the do=update (however I am going to guess that update is an array with all the data I want in it.) This is just a theory right now and I've got a lack of knowledge basis of how to interact with the datamanager to do a practical test. Looking at class_dm_forum.php I see how its done, but still not sure how to interact with the manager..

You would do something like this:

	$forumdata =& datamanager_init('Forum', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_SILENT);

        // set info with calls like
        // $forumdata->set_bitfield('options', $varname, $value); or
	// $forumdata->set($varname, $value);

	$forumid = $forumdata->save();

And that should take care of everything. For the info part, you would make multiple calls to $forumdata->set() or $forumdata->set_bitfield(), and of course what to use as $varname and $value is the question. You can find out by looking at the html for the form you fill out when creating a forum in the admincp. If a field is named like name="forum[displayorder]" that corresponds to

	$forumdata->set('displayorder', $value);

and if it's named like forum[options][moderatenewpost] then that corresponds to

        $forumdata->set_bitfield('options', 'moderatenewpost', $value);

The 'set' names probably correspond to database column names, so it's really the options that might be difficult to figure out.

Anyway, I hope that helps.