Re: [support] Import data into existing nodes

Hello, there.

First, happy New Year to everybody. :)

Victor, thank you very much for your reply, I haven't had the chance to try it yet, but I will in the next days and come back here to post the outcomes.

Alexander, just out of curiosity, this was the quote I used in my very first personal website on 1998... :D

best,

Dani

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Alexander Arul alexander.arul@gmail.comwrote:

Off topic, but Dani, I like your quote ;)

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Victor Kane victorkane@gmail.comwrote:

...

Well...

First you have to have your data in something like a CSV file...

Then you need a script which is going to iterate over each line of the CSV file, see if it can find an existing node to add data to, or else create a new node.

For PHP code iterating over each line of a CSV file, check out the code in http://drupal.org/project/node_import module.

Something like this:

    $article_nid = get_nid('title', $article_name, 'article');
    if ($article_nid) {
     $article_node = node_load($article_nid);
   } else {
      $article_node = new StdClass();
    }
    $article_node->type = 'article';
    $article_node->name = 'Article';
    $article_node->format = 3;
    $article_node->status = 1;
    $article_node->promote = 0;
    $article_node->sticky = 0;
    $log = 'Imported by import-issue ' . date('g:i:s a');

... // cck fields handled a little differently

    $article_node->field_article_publication_issue = array (
      0 => array(
        'nid' => $issue_nid,
      ),
    );

... // save node object $article_node = node_submit($article_node); node_save($article_node);

The get_nid function would be something like this (only works for fields like 'title' that are in the {node} table itself) or a simplified version of it:

/**

• Return the nid of a node if it exists
• @param $field_name
• The field name upon which the query is based.
• @param $field_name_string
• The string uniquely (in this case)
• identifying the node we are searching for.
• @param $type
• The identifier of the content type.
• @return
• $nid or false

*/ function get_nid ($field_name, $field_name_string, $type) { return db_result(db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE %s = '%s' AND type = '%s'", $field_name, $field_name_string, $type)); }

Hope that helps...

Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar http://projectflowandtracker.com

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Dani Matielo dacamat@gmail.com wrote:

...

Hello all,

I was wondering if anybody knows a way (a module or an already existing script) to import data into new fields for existing nodes. In other words, I have already several nodes, and what I wanted to do is to create a new field on them and import data from a cvs to them.

Thank you in advance,

Dani

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