Question

I’m using a forum with several topics and node comments module to add comment nodes to the topics.

I’m importing an external database and adding the relationships directly in mysql to the node_comments table.

However before to see the comments of a quesition I need to add a random comment in drupal to this question. Which is probably triggering a function and getting new values from the table.

Is there a way to simulate this, I cannot add a comment and delete it for all thousands nodes in my Drupal ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Node Comments are not shown with Core Drupal, you need modifications in your theme, or use a view (watch your performance!)

Node Comments displays comments using
“nodecomments” view. You can configure
the view to tweak some options, but
“Nodecomments” (second) display is
always used, and you can switch
display style (e.g. set it to “table”)
only when node comments are configured
as flat in content type configuration.
In threaded mode Node Comments module
forces usage of own display style.

edit: After discussion below, Drush seems the answer:
You can run any Drupal-code from the commandline using drush.

$ drush --uri=example.com php-eval "<?php module_invoke_all('comment', 'update', array('your'=>'dummy', 'comment'=>'here'); ?>"