drupal_execute and saving a node?

it immediately takes me to the node view screen.

drupal_execute() doesn't redirect. I guess you have a module that explicitly call drupal_goto() in its hook_nodeapi. Maybe you have 'nodegoto' installed? Disable all modules you can and try again.

I suspected the redirect property might have something to do with the previously described problem, but setting it to FALSE didn't help.

  $form['#redirect'] = FALSE;

That's because drupal_execute() is just like submitting a form. Cron runs as anonymous (unless you override the global $user).

Now,

Surf your site as anonymous. Create a node. On the node editing form open the "Authoring information" fieldset and assign this node to somebody else. You'll discover that you can't. There's no such fieldset. That's because anonymous don't have the 'administer nodes' permission.

Deadmonk, your post was very helpful! Here's what worked for a cck filefield (as opposed to imagefield):

• so far, I don't seem to need to set 'new_file' => 1, though i might be missing something
• as you noted, i just created an empty array for the file field: $values['field_foo_upload'] = array();
  note that i had to append _upload to the field name.
• in the custom form this is being used with, i named the upload field the same thing as the upload field in the "real" node create/edit form for my content type. in other words, the standard edit form for my content type showed that the file upload field is named files[field_foo_upload]. That is where the $values['field_foo_upload'] in $values['field_foo_upload'] = array(); comes from.

I have a custom form with several file upload fields. For each uploaded file, I would like to create a separate node with the file attached using filefield module.

My code loops through the file fields on the form. For each one, the $_FILES array is modified so that the relevant info (temp path, filesize, etc) is stored in $_FILES['files']['field_myfile_upload']. drupal_execute is then run to create the new node with attached file. The process is repeated for each file field. This works fine for the first file, but I cannot get it to work for additional files. Anyone have ideas?

Following is a simplified code sample... Would really, really appreciate help on this. Thanks!

// set title, body, etc for $new_node
$new_node['title'] = 'new node with file attached';  // etc.

// set up $_FILES array . each time the code loops through, a different file's path, name, size, etc are used
$_FILES['files']['name']['field_myfile_upload'] = [set value here...];
$_FILES['files']['type']['field_myfile_upload'] = [set value here...];
$_FILES['files']['tmp_name']['field_myfile_upload'] = [set value here...];
$_FILES['files']['error']['field_myfile_upload'] = [set value here...];
$_FILES['files']['size']['field_myfile_upload'] = [set value here...];

$new_node['field_myfile_upload'] = array();  // provide empty array

drupal_execute('mynodetype_node_form', $new_node, $node);

I can't seem to fake the uploaded file well enough in drupal6.
my drupal_execute script is failing in file.inc:

 if (isset($_FILES['files']) && $_FILES['files']['name'][$source] && is_uploaded_file($_FILES['files']['tmp_name'][$source]))

and here:

if (!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['files']['tmp_name'][$source], $file->filepath))

Any ideas on how I can fix this? Apart from bypassing the check of cause.

Here is my script:

module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.pages');  // new for Drupal 6

$filepath='/tmp/images/HPIM4391.jpg';
unset($_FILES);
$_FILES['files']['name']['image'] = basename($filepath);
$_FILES['files']['name']['upload'] = 0;
$_FILES['files']['type']['image'] = 'image/jpeg';
$_FILES['files']['type']['upload'] = 0;
$_FILES['files']['tmp_name']['image'] = $filepath;
$_FILES['files']['tmp_name']['upload'] = 0;
$_FILES['files']['error']['image'] = 0;
$_FILES['files']['error']['upload'] = 4;
$_FILES['files']['size']['image'] = filesize($filepath);
$_FILES['files']['size']['upload'] = 0;

   $form_state = array();
   $nodeTmp = array('type' => image); // a variable holding the content type
   $form_state['values']['type'] = 'image';
   $form_state['values']['status'] = 1;
   $form_state['values']['title'] = 'my test node';   // the node's title
   $form_state['values']['body'] = 'just my test node'; // the body, not required
   $form_state['values']['status'] = 1; //publish all imported nodes
   $form_state['values']['promote'] = 1; //promote all imported nodes
   $form_state['values']['sticky'] = 0; //remove sticky from imported nodes
   $form_state['values']['image'] = array();
   $form_state['values']['name'] = 'webmaster'; 

   $form_state['values']['op'] = t('Save');  // this seems to be a required value


drupal_execute('image_node_form', $form_state, (object) $nodeTmp);