[development] programmatic creation of node

[Nancy Wichmann]

I had a 5.x module where I was creating a node and it wouldn't even save the uid unless I also set the username.

Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP


-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org]On Behalf Of Omar Abdel-Wahab
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:30 PM
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] programmatic creation of node

Any ideas why does this fails to set the node author:
$node = new stdClass();
$node->title = 'foo';
$node->uid = 1;
node_submit($node);
node_save($node);

While this succeeds:
$node = new stdClass();
$node->title = 'foo';
node_submit($node);
$node->uid = 1;
node_save($node);


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Quoting Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com>:
>
>  > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
>  > wrote:
>  >
>  >> 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.
>  >
>  >
>  > OK, great. But I thought I read KarenS stating somewhere that the
>  > node_submit($node) was good when we are dealing with CCK fields... would be
>  > good to know
>  >
>
>  Maybe because CCK uses the nodeapi ``presave'' operation which
>  node_save calls first.
>
>  <code
>  source="http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/cck/content.module?view=markup>
>  /**
>  * Nodeapi 'presave' op.
>  *
>  */
>  function content_presave(&$node) {
>   _content_field_invoke('presave', $node);
>   _content_field_invoke_default('presave', $node);
>  }
>  </code>
>
>
>
>
>  Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
>  -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
>
>



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Omar Abdel-Wahab