Drupal's auto node title and node_save?

Question

I am using auto node title which will generate the title of a node. However, this is not happening when I create a node using node_save. See below:

function save_contact($firstName, $lastName, $email, $showErrors = false) {

   global $user;

   $edit = array();
   $edit['type'] = 'contact';
   $edit['uid'] = $user->uid;
   $edit['name'] = $user->name;
   $edit['promote'] = 0;
   $edit['comment'] = 0;
   $edit['status'] = 1;

   $edit['field_contact_name'][0]['value'] = $firstName; // NOTE
   $edit['field_contact_surname'][0]['value'] = $lastName; // NOTE
   $edit['field_contact_email'][0]['email'] = $email; // NOTE
   $edit['title'] = $firstName.' '.$lastName; // NOTE

   node_invoke_nodeapi($edit, 'contact');
   node_validate($edit);
   $node = node_submit($edit);
   node_save($node);


}

save_contact("NAME", "SURNAME", "[email protected]");

When the node is generated, the title becomes: "[field_contact_name-formatted] [field_contact_surname-formatted] " instead of, "NAME SURNAME".

Any idea why? I'm guessing auto node title is not picking up that I've entered values, or that maybe the title generation happens before the point in time where I specify the values.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Line 74 of *auto_nodetitle.module*

return empty($node->auto_nodetitle_applied) && ($setting = auto_nodetitle_get_setting($node->type)) && !($setting == AUTO_NODETITLE_OPTIONAL && !empty($node->title));

By that logic, have you included your contact content type in auto_nodetitle? If contact is only covered "optionally" then setting your title here will prevent the module from acting.

Answer 2

I fixed it like so:

  $edit['field_contact_name'] = array();
$edit['field_contact_name'][0]['value'] = 
    $edit['field_contact_name'][0]['safe'] = 
        $edit['field_contact_name'][0]['view'] = $firstName;

$edit['field_contact_surname'] = array();
$edit['field_contact_surname'][0]['value'] = 
    $edit['field_contact_surname'][0]['safe'] =
        $edit['field_contact_surname'][0]['view'] = $lastName;

$edit['field_contact_email'] = array();
$edit['field_contact_email'][0]['email'] =
    $edit['field_contact_email'][0]['safe'] = 
        $edit['field_contact_email'][0]['view'] = $email;

In other words, I had to also specifiy the safe and view fields.