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Posted by ff1 on April 26, 2006 at 12:55pm

I'm developing a new module which, among other things, carries out a some updates as part of the cron hook. For the last part of the cron hook, I want to create a new 'story' node which will appear on my front page and let the users know that the updates are complete.

It only happens once a week at most, so I don't care that each one will contain the same or similar text.

What is the best way of creating this new node?

Cheers,
Ian

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I haven't tried this, but it

Posted by castellan on April 26, 2006 at 1:47pm

I haven't tried this, but it seems straightforward enough:

Run a db_query statement to insert a new record into the node table with all of the necessary data and then increment the node_nid field of the sequences table.

Of course, you should try this on a test server first to make sure that nothing misbehaves. You don't want to accidentally overwrite any data in the database.

There might also be a more elegant way to do this, though I didn't see one during a quick search.

First mistake avoided!

Posted by ff1 on April 26, 2006 at 2:49pm

Thanks for that.

I didn't know about the nid being stored in the sequences table, so that would have been my first mistake.

I was sort of hoping that there was a neat api function that I could just pass the title and body to. Anybody know of one?

Thanks anyway.

ian
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ian
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Probably a better way (and safer in 4.7)

Posted by nevets on April 26, 2006 at 3:24pm

Another way to create the story to node is to construct it in code then save it with node_save(). This avoids the problems of knowinf how the data for a node is stored which is import in 4.7 since it is no longer in a single table. An simple example would be

<?php
$node = new StdClass();
$node->type = 'story';
$node->uid = 1;  // Or the uid you want the story to be from
$node->title = 'The title of the node';
$node->body = 'This is the story';

node_save($node);
?>