Manually insert values into content type table

Question

I want to insert a record with some additional data which are not in the node table. The record type is same as forums. I have created those fields using content types for forum. If am inserting values to node table using node_save() vid and nid are automatically inserted as default.

Answer 1

You really don't want to insert your own values on fields that are auto-increment. node_save() should do the work for you.