[support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...

[Laura Scott]

The reason this is not just a matter of inserting content into a  
table is because Drupal uses more than one table to manage the site.

There are a number of import modules available. It sounds like you  
know what you're doing, so maybe you can use one of those modules for  
a code base to create a custom mod for your needs. Having tasks  
handled by cron is something many modules do.

I'm assuming the developers list pointed you to the api documentation.

If you want a desktop solution, you might start with something like  
Performancing or even ecto.

Hope this helps.

Laura

On Jul 2, 2006, at 9:45 AM, dondi_2006 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Some days ago I had asked on this list how to add content in
> Drupal from the mysql command line.
> I only got one suggestion to try the import_HTML module (http:// 
> drupal.org/node/46008) but it really seems an overkill,
> and not the best approach to what I have to do.
>
> I had also asked how to do the same thing in two different ways in
> the forums:
> http://drupal.org/node/62954
> http://drupal.org/node/68605
>
> without result so far: no feedback from others who posted, who I  
> contacted directly, no usable documentation I could recognize,  
> nothing...
>
> Honestly, I can't believe this has never been done before: What
> I need to do is something that (OUTSIDE Drupal) reads a .txt file  
> like this:
>
> ARTICLE_CATEGORIES="travel/england/london,  food/foreign/restaurants"
> TEXT="path/to/some/local/html/file/"
> CREATED_ON_DATE="YYYY/MM/DD"
> AUTHOR="John Doe"
>
> etc etc.... (other variables like, for example,  
> "create_a_forum_for_this_node")
>
> and upload the node inside the Drupal database, just if I had  
> inserted everything by hand in the proper drupal form.
>
> I don't want to do it via drupal because I need this to happen  
> regularly  and automatically (say, a cron job on my home PC which  
> publishes via ssh whatever file in $DRUPAL_CONTENT folder changed  
> in the last hour): it's not a one-time job.
>
> I've also tried to look for scripts doing this via the blogger API
> (or usable documentation on how to write them so they _are_ drupal  
> compatible): nothing.
>
> What am I missing? Is it really possible that everybody is happy
> pasting and changing stuff manually in a tiny textarea, EVERY
> darned time some node must be added or updated??
>
> Thanks,
>
> O.
>
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