How to create a forum topic programmatically?

I just gone through how to create forums and containers programmatically with the below link

http://www.unibia.com/unibianet/drupal/how-create-drupal-forums-and-containers-programmatically

But never see any post(google) which create forum topic pro-grammatically, whether i should go with node_save() or any alternative.

please help me guys,

Thanks, Edvin

A quick, safe and easy way to create new nodes programmatically is to use node_save():

<?php
  // Construct the new node object.
  $node = new stdClass();

  // Set the values for the node
  $node->title = "My new forum topic";
  $node->body = "The body of my forum topic.\n\nAdditional Information";
  $node->type = 'forum';   // Your specified content type
  $node->created = time();
  $node->changed = $node->created;
  $node->status = 1;       // To have published, else use 0
  $node->promote = 1;      // If you want promoted to front page, else use 0
  $node->sticky = 0;
  $node->format = 1;       // Filtered HTML
  $node->uid = 1;          // UID of content owner
  $node->language = 'en';

  // If known, the taxonomy TID values can be added as an array.
  $node->taxonomy = array(2,3,1,);

  node_save($node);
?>