[development] programmatic creation of node

[Ashraf Amayreh]

For better or worse, this is the code I use in the aggregation module and it
seems to be working flawlessly. This is in the yet to be released release
though (drupal 5). If there's a better way I'd be glad to know it.

(INSERT)
$node = new stdClass();
$node->title = "{$XML->name}";
$node->body = "{$XML->description}";
$node->eid = $eid;

node_save($node);
module_invoke_all('nodeapi', $node, 'insert', NULL, NULL);

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(UPDATE)
$node = node_load(array('nid' => 5));
$node->title = "{$XML->name}";
$node->body = "{$XML->description}";
$node->eid = $eid;

node_save($node);
module_invoke_all('nodeapi', $node, 'update', NULL, NULL);


On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>
wrote:

> Using drupal_execute() or drupal_execute_macro() is a nasty, evil, slow,
> and
> ugly way to programmatically create users and nodes.  It's also usually
> the
> only way that will reliably work. :-)  I have, however, run into cases
> where
> it does not.  For those, I have to fall back to creating the $node object
> myself and saving it.  Fortunately I've only had to do that for one-off
> imports, so I could hard-code defaults.
>
> There is no real good answer here, not until we get a real Data API in
> core.
> We're working on it. :-)
>
> On Saturday 08 March 2008, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
> > In drupal5, you should call hook_node_submit() and
> > hook_nodeapi('submit') before node_save(). that will assure that any
> > group info gets saved (for example).
> >
> > In d6 this is not needed since those submit hooks became
> > hook_nodeapi(pre_save) and that happens from within node_save().
> >
> > drupal_execute is also a valid way. the node_load() is a little
> > expensive but this is a very clean way to proceed. if it is working
> > for you, i would proceed like this.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Novák Áron <aron at novaak.net> wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > >  While the development of FeedAPI, i faced with a problem. FeedAPI has
> to
> > >  create nodes programmatically, i believed that this is a really easy
> > > thing to do, feedapi now works like this:
> > >  $node->data1 = "foo";
> > >  $node->data2 = "bar";
> > >  node_object_prepare($node); // this is about the default values
> > >  node_save($node);
> > >
> > >  But I got a report that this is not a good way to do:
> > >  http://drupal.org/node/196273
> > >  Summary:
> > >  "node_object_prepare() and node_prepare() functions are meant to
> > > simulate the demonstration of a node"
> > >  And some users, who use FeedAPI + 3rd party modules together, really
> > >  experience bugs around node creation / handling:
> > >  http://drupal.org/node/195105 (summary: the core forum module uses
> > > form_alter to pass taxonomy-like data. And this data is lost now.)
> > >
> > >  Can you suggest me a perfect way to handle this problem?
> > >  mustafau (http://drupal.org/user/207559) suggested to use
> > >  drupal_execute($form_id, $form_values), but in this case, i had
> another
> > >  problem: drupal_execute has no useful return value and $node
> structure
> > >  remains unaltered, so i had to do a node_load after this, which is
> quite
> > >  expensive.
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >
> > >  Aron Novak
>
>
> --
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>
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> Thomas
> Jefferson
>



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Ashraf Amayreh
http://blogs.aamayreh.org
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