Assuming I understand ... You should know what your node object for the given content type looks like when populated. You'll then assign programmatically as you suggest. I am not sure what you mean by rebuilding - once your node is constructed node_save() will do what you need On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Ernst Plüss <ernst.pluess@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Drupal friends

In a cron job I'm loading data from an external source and want to create nodes of a content type created with fields in D7.

For every node I do:

$node = new stdClass(); // populate field values node_save($node);

How can I populate the filed values programmatically ? Is there something in Field API that does this for me or do I have to rebuild the whole complicated fields structure for every field by hand? Or is there something that can prepare this structure in order I can fill in my values?

Thanks for your help! Ernst