Copy Thread to Second Forum Using newthread_post_complete Plugin

[gabestah]

Hello,

As the title suggests, I am trying to figure out the PHP code needed to create a plugin that generates a second, exact copy of a thread but in a specific forum using a hooked plugin for newthread_post_complete.

I've searched far and wide and the closest information I've found is a a few years old in this thread, but more importantly seems to be for a situation where the code is specifying a lot of the information manually (such as 'pagetext', 'userid', etc.)

The closest I've come to a solution is the following snippet of code which unfortunately instead of creating a copy of the thread, actually seems to just move the existing thread into the new forum:

PHP Code:

// DESTINATION FORUM ID
$forumid = 2; 
$dataman =& datamanager_init('Thread', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');  
$dataman->set_existing($threadinfo);   
$dataman->setr('forumid', $forumid);   
$dataman->pre_save();  
if (count($dataman->errors) > 0)  
{  
    foreach ($errors as $error) 
    { 
        $errorss .= $error. "<br />"; 
    } 
    $errormessage = "Form failed to submit. The following error(s) occured: <br /> ".$errorss;
    eval(standard_error($errormessage)); 
}  
else  
{  
    $dataman->save();   
    $foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid); 
    $threadinfo = fetch_threadinfo($newpost['threadid']); 
    mark_thread_read($threadinfo, $foruminfo, $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], TIMENOW);     
} 


My suspicion is the issue lies somewhere in the use of the "set_existing" method, which as described in the documentation, seems to inform the data manager that we are merely updating an existing record rather than creating a new one.

If anyone has any insight into the code I might need to accomplish this I would truly appreciate any and all assistance.

Thanks!