php Functions: a) to get $forumid b) to create forum

[BRotondi]

Hello

I'm working on a MediaWiki-link to vBulletin (MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On). Next Step: Hardlinks MediaWiki-Discussion -> vBulletin-Forum. (Each Article has his own Forum, not only a Thread)

After working me into the vBulletin-Code I realized, that simple SQL won’t update the vBulletin-Cache and perhaps is a too quick and dirty way to achieve my two goals:

a) How to determine the $forumid of a forum? ID_ParentForum and Page Title are known. The SQL-Query is:

PHP Code:

$sql = 'SELECT `forumid` FROM `forum` WHERE `parentid` = "[ID_ParentForum]" AND `title` = "[Page Title]"; 


(here "dirty SQL" ignoring the cache won't do any harm)

b) If there is no forum with this Name in ID_ParentForum I want to create it. vBulletin does this through forum.php > $_POST (line 246) but there is perhaps an easier way to achieve this without “emulating” the form.

I think there must be already code out there to achieve these two points...
Any help very appreciated! Thanks!
Bruno