<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 07 Sep 2006, at 11:10 AM, Augustin (Beginner) wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Also, what would be the difference of using FAPI2 to programmatically update a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">node, compared to using node_load/edit/node_save?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>the node is actually validated. and you know for a fact it's a real working node. also has friendlier<DIV>concise error messages.<DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>otherwise it hits all the same back end stuff. It just happens to be a consistent interface to it (along with all node forms)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>BTW: if a form is not programmatically submittable, it should be consired a bug, please make an issue for it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>there are a handful of forms like this at the moment, but i wasn't aware that node form was one of them. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(it was working in my tests here : drupal.org/node/79900)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>