htmlentities-ish behavior when posting from a script

[av8or1]

Hi kh99-

Thanks for replying. This is what I have for adding a post to an existing thread, but I get the same result regardless of whether or not I use the vB_DataManager_Post or the vB_DataManager_Thread_FirstPost object.

PHP Code:

function AddNewPostToExistingThread( $postData )
{
   global $vbulletin;

   /*
    * Create the DM object
    */
   $newPost = new vB_DataManager_Post( $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY );

   /*
    * Populate the DM object
    */
   $foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo(    $postData[ 'forumid'   ] );
   $threadinfo = fetch_threadinfo(  $postData[ 'threadid'  ] );
   $newPost->set_info( 'forum',     $foruminfo               );
   $newPost->set_info( 'thread',    $threadinfo              );
   $newPost->set( 'threadid',       $postData[ 'threadid'  ] );
   $newPost->set( 'title',          $postData[ 'subject'   ] );
   $newPost->set( 'userid',         $postData[ 'userid'    ] );
   $newPost->set( 'pagetext',       $postData[ 'body'      ] );
   $newPost->set( 'dateline',       $postData[ 'dateline'  ] );
   $newPost->set( 'allowsmilie',    1                        );
   $newPost->set( 'visible',        1                        );

   /*
    * Pre-save the DM object
    */
   $newPost->pre_save();

   # Check for and process errors
   if( count( $newPost->errors ) )
      // do something to report errors back to log
      print "Could not add post {$postData[ 'title' ]}. Error List:\n";
      foreach( $newPost->errors as $error )
      {
         print "   -> $error\n";
      }
      unset( $newPost );
      return false;

   }
   else
   {
      // Do the full save
      $newPostID = $newPost->save();
      // do something to report threadid back to log
      // if you want that level of reporting
      print "Added post {$postData[ 'title' ]}. Post ID = $newPostID\n";
      build_thread_counters( $newPostID             );
      build_forum_counters(  $postData[ 'forumid' ] );
      unset( $newPost );
      return true;

   } // if-else errors

} // AddNewPostToExistingThread() 


As for your second question, the results between entering the identical text via the quick reply or advanced editor while logged into the forum versus from a script produce different results. Also, strangely enough I seem to recall creating a post via a script where this worked (HTML not displayed as HTML text but rather used to render the display), but that was late last night and so I don't recall now how that occurred. And unfortunately I cannot reproduce it. [grumble]

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I tried running the script both with the "Allow HTML" option set to "Yes" and with it set to "No". Either way produces the same result. The thought I originally had (which was a guess as I'm still new to vB) was that if the post was added when the "Allow HTML" option setting was "Yes" then the content would not be converted via htmlentities and stored in the DB just as you'd want it. And with that option set to "No", then you would have your HTML in your content converted and stored in the DB in that manner. To test that theory, I would set "Allow HTML" to "Yes" then run the script. Then change the setting to "No" and run the script again. As I mentioned, I got the same result. So much for that theory...

Thanks!

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UPDATE: I found some reference to converting to BB code in newreply.php, so I am going to look into that. Could it be that I simply need to wrap BB tags around the HTML code and that would take care of it? Boy but that would be great if it turns out to be that simple...