Auto-creation of threads?

[Rendog]

Hey guys, I'm having a very fundamental issue getting this to work.

As soon as I do the require global.php line, my varibles don't work... by that i mean the php page below prints only Test:

$FORUM_ID is blank even though its decalred...

if i remove the require global.php line its fine.... what gives?

PHP Code:

<?php

    $FORUM_ID = 60;

     chdir('/www/data/website/forums');

    // Load vB-Backend
    require_once ('./global.php');
    // require_once ('./includes/functions_newpost.php')


?>

Test: <?php echo $FORUM_ID?>

forum_id ends up blank... if i comment out the global.php, it prints properly... any ideas?

[Wired1]

1. what version of PHP are you running, 4 or 5?

2. is global.php called from the function?

[Andreas]

I guess you got register_globals=on
For the sake of security, vBulletin unsets all global variables created by register_globals=on, and there is no way (well ... except changing some basic internal functions would be necessary) to stop it from doing that

Best suggestion: Code without relying on register_globals

[artonex]

I need to take this rss feed and use it for auto new threads.

http://news.google.com/news?q=mariju...F-8&output=rss

I use vb3.5 rc3.

how would i do this?

[mtrac]

Originally Posted by Wired1

Yes, I plan to update this when vB 3.5 comes out if it doesn't work

It's not working off a cron job any more but does work when called locally. Compared to the other problems I'm having it's not exactly a catastrophe. Any ideas?

[Wired1]

artonex:
Not a clue if this will work in vB 3.5.0. Gotta get into the code more first.

mtrac:
what vB version?

[mtrac]

3.5.0 (Gold)

[mickmel]

Originally Posted by Wired1

Yes, I plan to update this when vB 3.5 comes out if it doesn't work

I was hoping for an update to this. It still creates threads, but:

- They're created under the username of the person that pushes the "create" button, rather than the user specified by the script.
- The threads automatically go into the moderation queue, rather than appearing on the site for other users to respond to.

Thanks.

[Wired1]

blast from the past

Could've sworn there's a couple of plugins now that auto-create threads now, could be wrong. If you can't find them, I'll dig into the code (maybe this weekend) and see what I can come up with. As you can see from this thread, I pretty much grabbed some vBulletin functions and slapped them together. I'm guessing these functions have changed, and so this broke. Probably have to re-smush the vBulletin code together

Yeah, that last thought didn't make much sense to me either.

[norma-aguilera]

OK. In case anyone else needs this code....

This worked for me with vBullentin version 3.5.4

The new thread was created successfully -even when I was not loggin in.

<?php
require_once('./global.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_newpost.php');
require_once('./includes/class_dm.php');
require_once('./includes/class_dm_threadpost.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_databuild.php');

$forumid = 19;
$userid = 1;
$title = 'The first autopost!';
$pagetext = 'More details here.';

$threaddm =& datamanager_init('Thread_FirstPost', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');

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

$threaddm->set('forumid', $forumid);
$threaddm->set('userid', $userid);
//$threaddm->set('user', 'SGD DESIGNS');
$threaddm->set('title', $title);
$threaddm->set('pagetext', $pagetext);
$threaddm->set('allowsmilie', 1);
$threaddm->set('visible', 1);
$threaddm->set('dateline', TIMENOW);
$threaddm->save();
?>