How to send a PM from outside vbulletin

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EDIT 30/07-2011: Sorry everyone! I completely forgot to show how I solved this issue, so here it is!

I cannot remember where I found this, and I take no credit for this code.

First you need a php file called "pm-script.php" (or whatever you feel like).
Then past this code into this newly created file:

PHP Code:

<?php
function vbulletin_send_pm(
    $site, $sender_username, $sender_password, 
    $recipient, $title = '', $message = '', $iconid = '0'
){
    $cookiefile = tempnam("/tmp", "cookies"); 
    /* create a temporary file to store cookies.
   this should work on most systems and is more
   flexible than specifying path explicitly */
 
    $ch = curl_init();
    //General options
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); //For debugging
    //Masquerade as Firefox
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); //Follow redirects
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookiefile);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiefile);
    //PHP >= 5.1.0
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
 
    /** *************************************************
             Log In
    ****************************************************/
 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site.'login.php?do=login');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $site.'index.php'); 
 
    /* The fields of the login form.*/
    $postfields = array(
        'vb_login_username'    => $sender_username,
        'vb_login_password' => '', //Interestingly enough, this doesn't need to be set.
        //'cookieuser' => '1', //"Remember me"
        's' => '',
        'securitytoken' => 'guest',
        'do' => 'login',
        'vb_login_md5password' => md5($sender_password), //hash the password
        'vb_login_md5password_utf' => md5($sender_password), //UTF? Looks the same to me.
     );
 
    $postfields = http_build_query($postfields, '', '&'); //PHP >= 5.1.2
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields); 
 
    $result = curl_exec ($ch);
    //There will be a redirection link if the login was successful
    if (preg_match('/index.php\?s=(\w{32})/', $result, $matches)){
        $s_key = $matches[1]; //not used 
    } else {
        return false;
    }
 
    /** *************************************************
         Retrieve the PM page to get the security token 
    ****************************************************/
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site.'private.php?do=newpm');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
    $html = curl_exec($ch);
    if (preg_match('/<input\s+type="hidden"\s+name="securitytoken"\s+value="([\w\-]+)"\s*\/?>/i', $html, $matches)){
        $security_token = $matches[1];
    } else {
        return false;
    }
 
    /** *************************************************
             Send the PM
    ****************************************************/
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site.'private.php?do=insertpm');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $site.'private.php?do=newpm');
 
    /* PM form fields */
    $postfields = array(
        'recipients' => $recipient,
        'bccrecipients' => '',
        'title' => $title,
        'message' => $message,
        'wysiwyg' => '0',
        'iconid' => $iconid,
        's' => '', //might need to use $s_key here
        'securitytoken' => $security_token,
        'do' => 'insertpm',
        'pmid' => '',
        'forward' => '',
        'button' => 'Submit Message',
        'savecopy' => '0', //save the message in "Sent" folder
        'parseurl' => '1', //automatically parse URLs in the message
     );
 
    $postfields = http_build_query($postfields, '', '&');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
 
    $result = curl_exec ($ch);
    //Note : I don't verify if the message was actually sent.  
    //If everything went well so far it probably was.
 
    /** ****************************************************
       Done. Close connections and kill the cookie-file.
    ********************************************************/
    curl_close ($ch); 
    unlink($cookiefile);
    return true;
}
?>

To send a PM from a non-VB page, include this php file in your non-VB page, and use the following function to send a pm:

PHP Code:

vbulletin_send_pm("http://url-to-your-forum.com/forum/", "from-username", "user-password", "Recipient-user-ID", "PM Title!", "PM Content");