How to programatically create a simple 'page' node
Last modified: October 12, 2009 - 06:53
Sometimes it's useful to programmatically create a node. There are at least two methods, and here's one appropriate for the most basic of content types, the page:
$newnode = new stdClass();
$newnode->title = 'title';
$newnode->body = 'whatever full html you like';
global $user;
$newnode->uid = $user->uid;
$newnode->name = $user->name;
$newnode->type = 'page';
$newNode->format = 2; // 1 means filtered html, 2 means full html, 3 is php
$newnode->status = 1; // 1 means published
$newnode->promote = 0;
$newnode = node_submit( $newnode );
node_save( $newnode ); The above is good for story content type nodes too, but once one starts dealing with more complex content types, ones that require the user to fill out a form to create a node of that type, the above logic is lacking. See http://drupal.org/node/293663 for an example using drupal_execute(); a technique able to simulate the user filling out forms.