[development] programmatic creation of node

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Victor Kane <victorkane at 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.

> So, use this function, and include all the necessary fields to make it work,
> it is a good test.
>
> Larry is right, what is needed is a better solution...
>

mymodule_nodeapi?  Filter on ``presave'' value for $op?  Then the main 
code just does the node_save.


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