Question

I am building a small system which will pull products from an API and put each product into drupal db as nodes when the script is run. I am new to Drupal so I hope you will forgive any stupidness. So here is a very simple break down of what I have done so far.

1. Used php simplexml to extract products using API.

2.Stored product name description,url etc in php variables.

1. At this point I need to add them to Drupal as nodes. I got this code from web which is exactly what I require (I think )

   $node = new stdClass(); 
   $node->type = "page"; 
   $node->title = "Title";
   $node->language = LANGUAGE_NONE; 
   $node->path = array('alias' => 'your node path'); // Setting a node path
   node_object_prepare($node); // Set some default values.
   $node->uid = 1; 
   

So simply putting my PHP variable in each of the above variable will do the trick. But I am stuck at where to put all this and my code? I mean do I create new php file in the drupal root or what? What files to include into it .How to do this.

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,
Ahmar.

Answer 1

The way Ghommey said does work, however if you don’t want to have to do it by creating a module and then going to a page you can use drupal_bootstrap() to allow you to include drupal into a .php file. Link to Documentation Here is a code sample:

define('DRUPAL_ROOT', '/path/to/drupal');
require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

//add create node object here
node_save($node);