Auto-creation of threads?

[Gryphon]

This thread has been very helpful, though I am having some trouble. Here is the my current code:

PHP Code:

if ($_POST["action"] == 'add') {
  query("INSERT INTO psu_news SET author='$user[name]', title='$_POST[title]', date_added='$setting[time]', post_id='$_POST[post_id]'");
  $psu_news_id = mysql_insert_id();

  if ($_POST["create_post"] == '1' && $_POST["post_id"] == '0') {
    // vb functions
    chdir('/home/psuwww/wwwroot/site.com/forums');
    require('./global.php');
    require('./includes/functions_newpost.php');

    $userid = 5; // The user creating the thread
    $forumid = 2; // The forum where the thread is to be posted

    // forum & user info
    $foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid);
    $bbuserinfo = fetch_userinfo($userid);

    // setup the thread
    $post[title] = '[News] '.$_POST["title"].'';
    $post[message] = '[url=http://www.site.com/index.php?newsid='.$psu_news_id.']http://www.site.com/index.php?newsid='.$psu_news_id.'[/url]';
    $post[poststarttime] = TIMENOW;
    $post[posthash] = md5($post[poststarttime] . $bbuserinfo['userid'] . $bbuserinfo['salt']);
    $post[emailupdate] = 9999;

    // build the thread
    build_new_post('thread', $foruminfo, array(), 0, $post, $errors);

    // bome back to working dir
    chdir('/home/psuwww/wwwroot/site.com/admin');
    query("UPDATE psu_news SET post_id='$post[threadid]' WHERE id='$psu_news_id'");
  }
  echo '<hr><font size="3"><b>Post Added '.$psu_news_id.'</b><hr>';
} 


The Thread title posts correctly and the Message also posts, however, $psu_news_id becomes unset. The message url in the created thread is missing the $psu_news_id and the final echo is blank.

Also, this is all done mid template on our site, and all the variables pre-defined at the top of the script are unset after this.

Any info appreciated.

[Gryphon]

That is too bad

[sabret00the]

i would love something like this based on

if posts on the forums in XX hours < XX then create thread

[zeropaid]

I am also having problems creating posts... here is my code:

PHP Code:

 chdir('/usr/local/www/htdocs/bbs');

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

$userid = $_POST[news_user_id]; // The user creating the thread
$forumid = 120; // The forum where the thread should be posted

// Get forum & user info
$foruminfo = fetch_foruminfo($forumid);
$bbuserinfo = fetch_userinfo($userid);

// Setup the thread
$post[title] = $title;
$post[message] = $article;
$post[poststarttime] = TIMENOW;
$post[posthash] = md5($post[poststarttime] . $bbuserinfo['userid'] . $bbuserinfo['salt']);
$post[emailupdate] = 9999;

// build the thread
build_new_post('thread', $foruminfo, array(), 0, $post, $errors);

// Errors?
if (sizeof($errors) > 0) {
  ?>There have been errors. <?=$errors?><?
  print_r($errors);
  die('errors');
}

$ThreadID = $post['threadid'];
$PostID = $post['postid'];

print ("the threadid is $ThreadID and the postid is $PostID");

And I get back these errors:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /usr/local/www/htdocs/bbs/includes/init.php on line 517

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in /usr/local/www/htdocs/bbs/includes/functions.php on line 922

Any help is appreciated, kind of lost here.

Thanks!

[Gryphon]

Might be

PHP Code:

require('./includes/functions_newpost.php'); 


[zeropaid]

yep fixed that and i think it would have complained about not being able to find the file... still not working. Maybe something in the data I am passing to it, hmm

[zeropaid]

tried passing it vanilla test data, to no avail. I am logged into the forum and that got rid of one of the errors, but now all I get is:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /usr/local/www/htdocs/bbs/includes/init.php on line 517

I checked init.php and it is trying to merge an array it just created and $specialtemplates, which appears to not be defined. This is a dev environment, maybe we are missing some templates?

[sabret00the]

has this been released properly?

[zeropaid]

released properly? I upgraded properly if thats what you mean, to 3.0.3

[sabret00the]

i mean did i get released via the releases forum here at vb.org?