news.phpbb.php

<?php
/*
* ==============================================================================
* Disney MMORPG News Parser - Post to PHPBB
*
* For DisneyMMO.com
* By Zach Knickerbocker
* ==============================================================================
*
* Coordinates posting of news articles to PHPBB.
*/

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : '../../public_html/community/';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);

// Includes.
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_posting.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management.
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup();

// Authenticate as a new user.	
$sql= 'SELECT u.* FROM '. USERS_TABLE . ' u WHERE u.user_id = ' . $scraper_config['userid'];
$result= $db->sql_query($sql);

// Populate user data with fetched data.
if ($row= $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {

    foreach($row as $k1 => $v1) {
    
        if(isset($user->data[$k1])) {
        
            $user->data[$k1] = $v1;
    
        }
    }

};

$db->sql_freeresult($result);
$auth->acl($user->data); // permissions

function postArticlesToPHPBB($scraper_config, $new_articles) {

    // Post articles to PHPBB.
    foreach($new_articles as $new_article) {

        // Note that multibyte support is enabled here.
        $subject = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('subject', $new_article['title'], true));
        $text    = utf8_normalize_nfc(request_var('text', $new_article['body'], true));

        // Variables to hold the parameters for submit_post.
        $poll = $uid = $bitfield = $options = ''; 

        generate_text_for_storage($subject, $uid, $bitfield, $options, false, false, false);
        generate_text_for_storage($text, $uid, $bitfield, $options, true, true, true);
        
        $data = array( 
            'forum_id'      	=> $scraper_config['forumid'],
            'icon_id'       	=> false,

            'enable_bbcode'     => true,
            'enable_smilies'    => true,
            'enable_urls'       => true,
            'enable_sig'        => true,

            'message'       	=> $text,
            'message_md5'   	=> md5($text),
                
            'bbcode_bitfield'   => $bitfield,
            'bbcode_uid'        => $uid,

            'post_edit_locked'  => 0,
            'topic_title'       => $subject,
            'notify_set'        => false,
            'notify'            => false,
            'post_time'         => 0,
            'forum_name'        => '',
            'enable_indexing'   => true,
        );
                
        // Create the actual post on PHPBB.
        submit_post('post', $subject, '', POST_NORMAL, $poll, $data);

        // Sleep for a short while to prevent out of order posting.
        sleep(5);
        
    }
    
}

?>