Assuming I understand ... You should know what your node object for the given content type looks like when populated. You'll then assign programmatically as you suggest. I am not sure what you mean by rebuilding - once your node is constructed node_save() will do what you need
On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Ernst Plüss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Drupal friends > > In a cron job I'm loading data from an external source and want to > create nodes of a content type created with fields in D7. > > For every node I do: > > $node = new stdClass(); > // populate field values > node_save($node); > > How can I populate the filed values programmatically ? Is there > something in Field API that does this for me or do I have to rebuild > the whole complicated fields structure for every field by hand? Or is > there something that can prepare this structure in order I can fill in > my values? > > Thanks for your help! > Ernst
