How to add a new category to this script ?

<h1>Step 2: Submit to directories</h1>

<input id="marticle" type="hidden" value="<?=$userarticle?>" />

<?php
if (isset($skip)){
 $_SESSION["skipped"][$dirid]=1;
}

if (isset($sendit)){
 $eredm = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM articles WHERE aid=$userarticle") or die(mysql_error());
 extract(mysql_fetch_array($eredm));
 $eredm = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM article_dirs WHERE adid=$dirid") or die(mysql_error());
 extract(mysql_fetch_array($eredm));
 $article = nl2br($article);
 include("./article/Curl.class.php");
 $curl =& new Curl();
 
 if (($atype==0) && ($cat)){
  // logging in
  $page = $curl->post("$aurl/signin.php", array('used'   => $aemail,	'part' => $apassword,'sbmSubmit' => 'Sign In'));

  // posting
    $page = $curl->get("$aurl/member/newarticle.php");
  	$dom = new DOMDocument();
    @$dom->loadHTML($page);
	
	$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
    $inputs = $xpath->evaluate("/html/body//input");
	

	for ($i = 0; $i < $inputs->length; $i++) {
	 $input = $inputs->item($i);
	 $tid = $input->getAttribute('id');
	 if ($tid=='userInput') $thisid = $input->getAttribute('value');
	}
	


  $page = $curl->post("$aurl/goarticle.php", array(
		'mode'=>'add',
		'cmbCategory'   => $cat,	
		'txtTitle' => $atitle,
		'txtKeyword' => $akeywords,
		'txtAbstract' => $aabstract,
		'txtAuthorResource' => $aresource,
		'txtArticle' => $article,
		'userInput' => $thisid,
		'smbSubmit' => 'Submit'));
		
		
   $page = $curl->get("$aurl/member/newarticle.php");
   if (substr_count($page,"Can not add new Article")>0){
    
    print("<center>Something went wrong<br /></center>");

	
   } else {
    // adding submit to database
    $eredm = mysql_query("INSERT INTO article_submits(aaid,adid) VALUES($userarticle,$dirid)") or die(mysql_error());
   }
 }
 if (($atype==1) && ($cat)){
  	$page = $curl->post("$aurl/?a=submit", array(
		'articlecategory'   => $cat,	
		'articletitle' => "$atitle",
		'articlekeywords' => "$akeywords",
		'articlesummary' => "$aabstract",
		'articleabout' => "$aresource",
		'articletext' => "$article",
		'submit' => 'Submit')) or die("error");
		
	if (!substr_count($page,"successfully")>0) {
	    print("<center>Something went wrong<br /></center>");
	} else {
    // adding submit to database
    $eredm = mysql_query("INSERT INTO article_submits(aaid,adid) VALUES($userarticle,$dirid)") or die(mysql_error());
    }
 }
 
 if (($atype==2) && ($cat)){
   $page = $curl->post("$aurl/index.php?page=userarticles",array(
    'article_title' => $atitle,
	'article_author' => "$afirstname $alastname",
	'article_category_id' => $cat,
	'article_snippet' => $aabstract,
	'article_summary' => $article,
	'submitarticle' => "Submit Article",
	'article' => 1
   ));


    // adding submit to database
    $eredm = mysql_query("INSERT INTO article_submits(aaid,adid) VALUES($userarticle,$dirid)") or die(mysql_error());
  
   
 }
 
}
?>

<div id="mainarea" style="width: 100%; text-align: center;" >

</div>

<script>
 ajaxRequest('getnew_article.php', 'site=<?php echo $userarticle; ?>');
</script>

Code (markup):

I want to add $atype==3 to this code which enables login and post to the same script used on this site:

http://www.article-4-content.info/

Code (markup):

I thought that this would work:

 // logging in
  
if (($atype==3) && ($cat)){

   $page = $curl->post("$aurl/index.php?page=login", array('used'   => $aemail,	'part' => $apassword,'sbmSubmit' => 'Sign In'));

   $page = $curl->post("$aurl/index.php?page=submitarticle",array(
    'article_title' => $atitle,
	'article_author' => "$afirstname $alastname",
	'article_category_id' => $cat,
	'article_snippet' => $aabstract,
	'article_summary' => $article,
	'submitarticle' => "Submit Article",
	'article' => 1
   ));

Code (markup):

However, this does not work....any thoughts ?

 

The script only uses a variable category. How do select/set the category?

 

The category is selected in the database:



It is (($atype==3) that is causing the script to hang...