function add_topic ($id)
{
    $msg_post = new fud_msg_edit;			
    /* Process Message Data */
    $msg_post->poster_id = $id;
    $msg_post->poll_id = $pl_id;
    $msg_post->subject = "welcome to the forum!";
    $msg_post->body = "bla bla bla ...";
    $msg_post->body = apply_custom_replace($msg_post->body);
    $msg_post->body = nl2br(htmlspecialchars($msg_post->body)); 
    fud_wordwrap($msg_post->body); //?
    $msg_post->subject = htmlspecialchars(apply_custom_replace($msg_post->subject));
  // trying to create a thread
    $create_thread = 1;
    $msg_post->add(1, 0, "N", "N", "N", FALSE);

    user_register_forum_view(1); 
    rebuild_forum_view(1, 1);  // do i need to?
}

 $msg_post->body = "Hej och välkommen till testforumet\n\nDetta är en ny rad\nNew line";

function add_topic ($id)
{
    $msg_post = new fud_msg_edit;		
    /* Process Message Data */
    $msg_post->poster_id = $id;
    $msg_post->subject = "Välkommen till testforum_";
    $msg_post->body = "Välkommen till forumet\n\nHär kan du göra lite av varje Å-Ä-Ö";
    $msg_post->body = tags_to_html($msg_post->body); 
    $msg_post->subject = tags_to_html($msg_post->subject); 
    $msg_post->add(1, 0, "N", "N", "N", FALSE);
    
    //additional stuff
    q("insert into {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}thread_view (forum_id, page, thread_id) select '1','1', max(id) from {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}thread");
    $result = uq("select max(id) from {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}msg");
    $var = db_rowarr($result);
    if(isset($var[0])){
      q("update {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}msg set approved='Y' where id = ".$var[0]);       
    }    
}

 $reply_msg = new fud_msg_edit;
 $reply_msg->poster_id = $id;
 $reply_msg->subject = "a reply";
 $reply_msg->body = "body of msg";
 $reply_msg->add_reply(151, 118, "", "", TRUE); //118=thread_id, 151=msg id
 $result = uq("select max(id) from {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}msg");
 $var = db_rowarr($result);      
  if(isset($var[0])){
      $reply_msg->approve($var[0], FALSE);	
  }