How do I add a node article into an existing HTML/CSS page?

Hi Zeb

Not sure what the best way of doing this would be.. as far as I'm aware there's not really a standard way of doing this. The first thing that springs to mind would be to write a php script including bootstrap.inc, which would allow you to call Drupal functions and display your node that way, although that's pretty code heavy. A simpler solution might be to just publish your articles as an rss feed, and use a php script to display it on your site.

Sorry if that's not a huge amount of help- I would question why you want to use Drupal for this though- there's plenty of free WYSIWYG editors you could incorporate into your site if that's what you're looking for? Otherwise to really get the benefits of Drupal, it might be worth investing the time to theme and set up Drupal to replace your current site?

Rich

It goes roughly like this:

- Rename (or copy) your html file to a php file.
- Important: Set Drupal's $cookie_domain='.example.com'; explicitly to your domain name in Drupal's settings.php file, no "www". (At least for typical cases).

<?php
// Prepare
$drupal_dir = "/where/is/drupal"; //Drupal's full filesystem path
$current_dir = getcwd();
chdir($drupal_dir);

require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

// Now retrieve the Drupal stuff you want
// -----------------------------------------
$output = "";
$output .= 'Hello <strong>'. $user->name .'</strong><br /><br />';

// Get node 34
$node = node_load(34);

$output .= $node->nid .': '. $node->title .'<br /><br />';
$output .= $node->body .'<br /><br />';

chdir($current_dir); // Clean up
?>

<!--
Here goes the "before" part of your html.
If you get "headers already sent" errors,
then remove your html headers.
-->

blah blah blah<br />
bloh bloh bloh<br />
blih blih blih<br />
<div id="content">

<?php
print $output;  // The Drupal stuff
?>

<!-- Next is the "after" part of your html -->

</div>
blah blah blah<br />
bloh bloh bloh<br />
blih blih blih<br />

<!-- Done -->

The styling is up to you.

------ Edit:
Made a correction to the $cookie_domain note, to also apply to the changes made in Drupal 6.17.