By gabbardang@gmail.com on

Hi All,

I have been working with drupal, recently i have came up with a requirement.
I have created content types in drupal and i was using drupal forms to store the information. But now i have to do it programitically. Means i need to read the information from a file and create nodes for a already created content type all this through a piece of code without any user interaction on the screen, it can also run as a scheduled backgroud task.
I am not able to find apis for it, can someone help me in pointing to the api or some example code snippet.

Thanks in advance
Kunal

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WorldFallz commented

typing "create node programmatically" into the d.o. search box yields Creating a node programmatically (second link) that has several methods of doing it. I've used the array method successfully, can't speak to the others.

That's the node part anyway. For the rest-- to get the info to populate the node you'll have to read up on parsing files with php (i found this article helpful) then use hook_cron to tie into drupal's cron cycle.

hope that helps....
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