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In a custom module for drupal 4.7 I hacked together a node object and passed it to node_save($node) to create nodes. This hack appears to no longer work in drupal 6. While I'm sure this hack could be fixed I'm curious if there is a standard solution to create nodes without a form. In this case the data is pulled in from a custom feed on another website.

+4  A: 

I don't know of a standard API for creating a node pragmatically. But this is what I've gleaned from building a module that does what you're trying to do.

  1. Make sure the important fields are set: uid, name, type, language, title, body, filter (see node_add() and node_form())
  2. Pass the node through node_object_prepare() so other modules can add to the $node object.
calebbrown
+8  A: 

The best practices method of making this happen is to utilize drupal_execute. drupal_execute will run standard validation and basic node operations so that things behave the way the system expects. drupal_execute has its quirks and is slightly less intuitive than simply a node_save, but, in Drupal 6, you can utilize drupal_execute in the following fashion.


$form_id = 'xxxx_node_form'; // where xxxx is the node type
$form_state = array();
$form_state['values']['type'] = 'xxxx'; // same as above
$form_state['values']['title'] = 'My Node Title';
// ... repeat for all fields that you need to save
// this is required to get node form submits to work correctly
$form_state['submit_handlers'] = array('node_form_submit');

$node = new stdClass();
// I don't believe anything is required here, though 
// fields did seem to be required in D5

drupal_execute($form_id, $form_state, $node);

William OConnor - csevb10
I actually consider drupal_execute to be a risk, as it mixes the form and node APIs, and one of the consequences is that it does not work well in a loop, which is often required when creating nodes programmatically. With some contrib modules, it can be required, but it is at best a workaround.
FGM
A: 

One more answer I discovered was to use the example from the blogapi module in drupal core. The fact that it is in core gives me a bit more confidence that it will continue to work in future versions.

Steven Noble
A: 

There are some good answers above, but in the specific example of turning an ingested feed item into a node, you could also take the approach of using the simplefeed module (http://wwww.drupal.org/project/simplefeed). This module uses the simplepie engine to ingest feeds and turns individual items from each feed into nodes. I realize that this doesn't specifically address the issue of creating nodes from cron, but it might be an easier solution to your problem overall.

Chris
The problem is, there's nothing simple about simplefeed and it's full of cruft and bloat.
deadprogrammer
That sounds like the same problem with a lot of contrib modules...
Rimian
+4  A: 

node_save() still works fine in Drupal 6; you'll need a couple of specific pieces of data in place to make it work.

$node = new stdClass();
$node->type = 'story';
$node->title = 'This is a title';
$node->body = 'This is the body.';
$node->teaser = 'This is the teaser.';
$node->uid = 1;
$node->status = 1;
$node->promote = 1;

node_save($node);

'Status' and 'Promote' are easy to overlook -- if you don't set those, the node will remain unpublished and unpromoted, and you'll only see if you go to the content administration screen.

Eaton
I think you should set $node->revision also. If you set it to an initial value and save then it should get set as the node ID. I seem to remember running into some trouble with this somewhere in the back of my mind...
Rimian
A: 

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