Drupal - automating form submission content

can you provide a little more information (which modules?). in general, I would suggest that you are calling module functions to create the content type, rather than trying to pass it through the form programmatically. this way you don't need to worry about the implementation and can trust that if the module works, it will work for your script as well:

of course, this binds your module to theirs, so any changes to their functionality might affect yours. (but again, you run this risk if they also update their database structure)

ex.

// your file.php

function mymodule_do_stuff() {
    cck_create_field('something'); // as an example, i doubt this
                                   // is a real CCK function :)
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

edit : vid

and nid

are node IDs, vid

is the revision ID, and nid

is the primary key for a specific node. because this is the actual node, you might have to do two things.

• create node programmatically

  you will need to reference the database for all exact fields (tables node
  
  and node_revisions
  
  ), but this should help you get the basic node work done:

  $node = (object) array(
      'nid' => '',            // empty nid will force a new node to be created
      'vid' => '',
      'type' => 'simplefeed'. // or whatever this node is actually called
      'title' => 'title of node',
      'uid' => 1,             // your user id
      'status' => 1,          // make it active
      'body' => 'actual content',
      'format' => 1,
                              // these next 3 fields are the simplefeed ones
      'url' => 'simplefeed url',
      'expires' => 'whatever value',
      'refresh' => 'ditto',
  );
  
  node_save($node);
  
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      

  now I think it should automatically call simplefeed at this point hook_insert()
  
  . if not then go to 2. but I would check if this is already worked out.

• name it yourself!

  simplefeed_insert($node);
  
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      

edit2 : Not adrupal_execute()

bad idea too, as you can return some validation, but this way you don't need to deal with the Forms API if you're not comfortable with it. I'm sure it node_save()

calls all the interceptors anyway, so you really only need to do step 1 with this method.