Create a new thread via vBulletin API

[ravel123]

Hi,

iam trying to use this code to create a thread via vBulletin cron job:

<?php
/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # Create a new thread                                              # ||
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # Hopefully this will help some of you people who are needing to   # ||
|| # create a new thread externally using vBulletins API. Good luck!  # ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~8192);

// Include vBulletin runtime files
require_once('./global.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_databuild.php');

// Create a new datamanager for posting
$threaddm =& datamanager_init('Thread_FirstPost', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');

// Set some variable and information
$forumid = 7;                                                                  // The id of the forum we are posting to
$userid = 1;                                                                 // The user id of the person posting
$title = addslashes($_POST["test title bla bla test"]);                                           // The title of the thread
$pagetext = addslashes($_POST["test content bla bla test 123 this is long enough"]);                                      // The content of the thread
$allowsmilie = '1';                                                             // Are we allowing smilies in our post
$visible = '1';                                                                 // If the post visible (ie, moderated or not)

// Parse, retrieve and process the information we need to post
$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid);
$threadinfo = array();
$user = htmlspecialchars_uni( fetch_userinfo($userid) );

$threaddm->set_info('forum', $foruminfo);
$threaddm->set_info('thread', $threadinfo);
$threaddm->setr('forumid', $forumid);
$threaddm->setr('userid', $userid);
$threaddm->setr('pagetext', $pagetext);
$threaddm->setr('title', $title);
$threaddm->set('allowsmilie', $allowsmilie);
$threaddm->set('visible', $visible);

// Lets see what happens if we save the page
$threaddm->pre_save();
if(count($threaddm->errors) < 1) {
    // Basically if the page will save without errors then let do it for real this time
    $threadid = $threaddm->save();
    unset($threaddm);
} else {
    // There was errors in the practice run, so lets display them
    var_dump ($threaddm->errors);
}

?>

It always return that the message is too short. I has to be at least 10 characters long.

Exact error message (in german): "array(2) { [0]=> string(110) "Der Text, den du eingegeben hast, ist zu kurz. Bitte erweitere den Text auf die minimale L?nge von 10 Zeichen." [1]=> string(49) "Bitte f?lle das Titel- und das Nachrichtfeld aus." } "

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I would like to create a query to my database in this script with "$db->query_first" but there is no $db-object so i get an error. can i get the db-object from vbulletin somehow?

Thanks in advance