Title: Problem using wp_new_comment
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Problem using wp_new_comment

 *  [kenbowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenbowen/)
 * (@kenbowen)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-wp_new_comment/)
 * I’m trying to add a simple custom comment management facility to a WordPress 
   site. The comment form is managed by javascript and works fine, including calling
   into my PHP file as needed. I’m trying to utilize wp_insert_comment. Based on
   the Example code there, I believe I’m assembling the right $commentdata array
   as argument. Here’s my code, including some simple logging to verify the data:
 * <?php
    /* include ‘../../../wp-includes/comment.php’; include ‘<MY PATH>/wp-includes/
   comment.php’; */
 * $db = new mysqli($hostname,$username,$password,$database);
    if ($db->connect_errno
   > 0){ die(‘Unable to connect to database [‘ . $db->connect_error . ‘]’); }
 *  /* Open Log file */
    $filename=“<MY PATH>/wp-content/themes/blocks2/dbi/testf.
   log”; $fd = fopen($filename, “a”); $str = “++++——–new_post———++++”; fwrite($fd,
   $str . “\n”);
 * $cid = 0;
    $pid = $_POST[‘pid’]; $ulogin = $_POST[‘ulogin’]; $uid = $_POST[‘uid’];
   $cmttxt = $_POST[‘txt’];
 *  $str = $ulogin . ‘ ‘ . $cmttxt;
    fwrite($fd, $str . “\n”);
 * $commentdata = array(
    ‘comment_post_ID’ => $pid, ‘comment_author’ => $ulogin,‘
   comment_author_email’ => ‘someone@example.com’, //fixed value – can be dynamic‘
   comment_author_url’ => ‘[http://example.com&#8217](http://example.com&#8217);,//
   fixed value – can be dynamic ‘comment_content’ => $cmttxt, ‘comment_type’ => ”,//
   empty for regular comments, ‘pingback’ for pingbacks, ‘trackback’ for trackbacks‘
   comment_parent’ => 0, //0 if not a reply to another comment; if it’s a reply,
   parent comment ID here ‘user_id’ => $uid );
 *  $str=”>>>comment_post_ID=” . $commentdata[“comment_post_ID”] . ” comment_author
   =” . $commentdata[“comment_author”] . ” comment_author_email=” . $commentdata[“
   comment_author_email”] . ” comment_author_url=” . $commentdata[“comment_author_url”].”
   comment_content=” . $commentdata[“comment_content”] . ” comment_type=” . $commentdata[“
   comment_type”] . “| comment_parent=” . $commentdata[“comment_parent”] . ” user_id
   =” . $commentdata[“user_id”];
    fwrite($fd, $str . “\n”);
 *  /* Insert new comment and get the comment ID */
    $comment_id = wp_new_comment(
   $commentdata );
 *  $str = “AFTER wp_new_comment-comment_id= ” . $comment_id;
    fwrite($fd, $str .“\
   n”); fclose($fd);
 * For a comment with text = “Silly-Comment”, here is what is logged:
 * ken Silly-Comment
    >>>comment_post_ID=17 comment_author=ken comment_author_email
   =someone@example.com comment_author_url=http://example.com comment_content=Silly-
   Comment comment_type=| comment_parent=0 user_id=3
 * The final log entry “AFTER wp_new_comment-comment_id= ” . $comment_id; is missing.
   
   It’s occurred to me that I might need to explicitly include wp-includes/comment.
   php, which contains wp_new_comment. I’ve attempted the two versions of the includes
   shown commented-out at the top of the code, but neither seems to have any effect.
 * Can anyone supply some guidance please?
    Thanks in advance, Ken Bowen

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-wp_new_comment/#post-6992895)
 * It’s not a good idea to try to only include core files that you think you need.
   The dependencies are often very complex and intertwined, it’s difficult to be
   sure you loaded all the dependencies. You basically need to load the entire WP
   environment for any code page that uses WP functions.
 * The easiest way to load the environment that is also closest to what you already
   have is to make your PHP page into a page template. Add a single page based on
   it. This is mainly to have a usable URL to post your form data to, you don’t 
   need traditional content, just a title from which a permalink slug is created.
 * The other options are AJAX, which could be good for you since you are using JavaScript,
   or posting through admin-post.php. You might see examples on the ‘net that merely
   include wp-load.php. That will actually work, but it’s strongly discouraged because
   you can’t know from site to site exactly where that file might reside.
 *  Thread Starter [kenbowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenbowen/)
 * (@kenbowen)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-wp_new_comment/#post-6992915)
 * Thanks bcworkz. It turned out that
    include ‘../../../../wp-load.php’; did the
   job.

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 * Last reply from: [kenbowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenbowen/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-wp_new_comment/#post-6992915)
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