Import/Export of CCK (was Re: [development] So, you like CCK?)

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 09:32 -0500, Mark Fredrickson wrote:
> >
> > Much like views. It's a good idea. Actually, considering our recent  
> > discussions about install profiles, exporting this in a format that  
> > would be compatible with install profiles/installer would be great.
> >
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> I've spent some time on that:
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> http://drupal.org/node/58153
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> The difficulty is faking a form submission. All the saving/updating  
> code is right in the _submit functions, so it is hard for modules to  
> use CCK programmatically.
> 
> I've been debating factoring this out, but it is a large task. I  
> haven't seen any love on my patch anyways, so I'm wondering if the  
> effort is worth it, or if I should just wait for Jaza's generalized  
> import/export API or FAPI 2.0 (which should make faking form  
> submissions easier).

I'd say go a head and factor it even if you just create a
cck_nodeapi_save() and pass through all the variables.... You can also
call the hooks directly with the right parameters, but that just bugs
me :)...
 
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> In penitence for my supporting the thread hijaking, I promise to  
> review the original patch.
> 
> -Mark
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