WordPress hack: Insert comments programatically

The following code can be pasted anywhere on your theme files.
Once this code is executed, it will add a new comment into WordPress database. The returned value is the comment ID, or 0 if a problem happenned.

$data = array(
	'comment_post_ID' => 1,
	'comment_author' => 'admin',
	'comment_author_email' => '[email protected]',
	'comment_author_url' => 'http://www.catswhocode.com',
	'comment_content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...',
	'comment_author_IP' => '127.0.0.1',
	'comment_agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3',
	'comment_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
	'comment_date_gmt' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
	'comment_approved' => 1,
);

$comment_id = wp_insert_comment($data);

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WordPress hack: Insert comments programatically