I had a 5.x module where I was creating a node and it wouldn't even save the uid unless I also set the username. Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org]On Behalf Of Omar Abdel-Wahab Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:30 PM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] programmatic creation of node Any ideas why does this fails to set the node author: $node = new stdClass(); $node->title = 'foo'; $node->uid = 1; node_submit($node); node_save($node); While this succeeds: $node = new stdClass(); $node->title = 'foo'; node_submit($node); $node->uid = 1; node_save($node); On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Quoting Victor Kane <victorkane@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Quoting Victor Kane <victorkane@gmail.com>:
I do this a lot, so I will ad my two cents.
The following line is absolutely essential for "good housekeeping", especially if you are using cck fields:
$node = node_submit($node);
However, it will NOT work if ... it shouldn't; for example if you omit (as does the above code) initializing the uid attribute.
Which is what http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_object_prepare does when nid is not set in the node object.
OK, great. But I thought I read KarenS stating somewhere that the node_submit($node) was good when we are dealing with CCK fields... would be good to know
Maybe because CCK uses the nodeapi ``presave'' operation which node_save calls first.
<code source="http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/cck/content.module?view=markup> /** * Nodeapi 'presave' op. * */ function content_presave(&$node) { _content_field_invoke('presave', $node); _content_field_invoke_default('presave', $node); } </code>
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