Question

I try to programmatically create a node of custom contenttype “location” in Drupal 6, with the node containing a location field (http://drupal.org/project/location) called “location” (yes I know, the nomenclature could be better, but I am just experimenting on this at the moment).

Creating the node works just fine, but I cannot find a way to set the contents for the location field – i.e. the node is created with all content but the value for then location field.

I try creating the node like this:

        $newNode = (object) NULL;
        $newNode->type = 'location';
        $newNode->title = $locationName;
        $newNode->uid = $userId;
        $newNode->created = strtotime("now");
        $newNode->changed = strtotime("now");
        $newNode->status = 1;
        $newNode->comment = 0;
        $newNode->promote = 0;
        $newNode->moderate = 0;
        $newNode->sticky = 0;

        $newNode->field_location[0]['street'] = 'Teststraße';
        $newNode->field_location[0]['postal_code'] = '12345'; 
        $newNode->field_location[0]['city'] = 'Musterstadt'; 

        node_save($newNode);

The node gets created with the correct title, but the location fields remain unset.

How can I programmatically set the location-related fields?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Wanted to add this as a comment, but it seems like putting code into the comment is rather problematic. So here we go: I changed the internas so that I do not use a cck field anymore, but use the default location option as suggested by googletorp.

The actual code to create a new location and assign this to a new node looks like this:

$location['street'] = "myStreet";
$location['postal_code'] = "12345";
...

$newLocationId = location_save($location);

$newNode = ...
$newNode->locations[0]['lid'] = $newLocationId;

node_save($newNode);

Thanks for the guidance 🙂