Create a thread remotely

[Cryo]

Sorry, misread it, it was a long and frustrating Saturday. Anyway, I figured the problem out... a different developer polluted the code with another DB connection because he didn't realize that the global.php included a database connection. Thanks though, and sorry for the little snap. Like I said, was a long Saturday. :erm:

[swellinfo]

I am having the same error as Cryo, and if someone might have a suggestion on what could be wrong here I would be appreciative. I had been creating threads remotely using the build_new_post. I have since upgraded to 3.7.2, and that function does not work anymore. I have been trying to follow the instructions given in this thread, but running into the following error:

Fatal error: Database object is not an object in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 172

Here is my include file code that I call, when someone clicks to create a new thread:

PHP Code:

$cwd = getcwd();
chdir('/home/swellinf/www/forum/');
require_once('global.php');
$adminid = 1;
$forumid = 13;

/*
define('VB_AREA', 'Forum');
define('CWD', (($getcwd = getcwd()) ? $getcwd : '.'));
require_once("./includes/init.php");

define('DIR', CWD);

require_once "./includes/functions.php"; 

*/

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

chdir($cwd);

$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid);
$threaddm->set_info('forum', $foruminfo);
$threaddm->set('forumid', $foruminfo['forumid']);
$threaddm->set('userid', $adminid);
$threaddm->set('title', $title);
$threaddm->set('pagetext', $message);
$threaddm->set('allowsmilie', 1);
$threaddm->set('visible', 1);
$threaddm->set('dateline', TIMENOW);
$threaddm->save();  

$threadid = $threaddm->save(); 


The error occurs at this line:
$threaddm =& datamanager_init('Thread_FirstPost', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');

I am assuming there is something wrong with the $vbulletin object I am passing. Cryo mentioned something about an additional database connection that was messing things up. Is this something I need to check? I do open a connection to my non-forum database before I include the above file.

Any suggestions here?

Thank you.

[Dismounted]

Where are you using it in? If it is another PHP application, what is the variable for that application's database handle?

[swellinfo]

Yes, I am using it in another php file. I don't think I have a db handle variable.

I open my db connection, just with a:
mysql_select_db();

do you have any suggestions for me from here?

[Dismounted]

So you have 2 database connections on the same page?

[swellinfo]

I open a DB connection before I include the file to build the new thread.

In the include file, I require_once(global.php). Does this create another db connection? If so, is this the problem. And, do you have suggestions for this?

Thanks again.

[Dismounted]

If you can call $vbulletin->db, you have no problem - but this is the problem, the DM doesn't detect that it is an object.

When opening your own connection, you need to assign a variable to the connection - an identifier. Then use this identifier in your own queries. See the PHP manual for more info.

[swellinfo]

My script looks something like this:

require_once('global.php');

then I get some user info from the $vbulletin object.

then I make a connection to the db like this:

$link = mysql_connect($host, $usr, $pass);
mysql_select_db($database, $link);

if ($_POST) { // the post vars pass info to create a thread remotedly
require('new_thread.php'); // this is the file i included in my first post

after the thread is created, the program goes on to make more sql db calls
}

then continues on to regular script.

Is there something I should be doing differently with the db connections?