Creating a Simple Content Object via PHP

Friday 19 September 2003 4:12:29 pm

I am looking for a simple guide to creating content objects via php. I have looked and found instructions on editing content, deleting content, and creating content classes however creating content objects seems to have been missed at the present.

All I really want to know is how to create a content object from a content class with 1 Text Line. That should be darn easy if I could find some reference. If anyone could help me out with a few lines of code it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Monday 22 September 2003 3:28:36 am

Still looking around for a solution to this.... I thought I had found one in the sdk docs though... right at the bottom of the page at http://ez.no/sdk/kernel/view/content_objects

However, one can see that the author was interrupted to more important things :-)

Regards,
Willie

Monday 22 September 2003 4:26:58 am

Hi,

I made a simple example according to Willie's code:

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$contentClassId = 3; //For ezUser, we would make this the ezUser
//class id but otherwise just pick and choose.

//fetch this class
$class =& eZContentClass::fetch( 3 );

$userID = 1; //The userId creating it. Since we are
//running this outside of the web for mainainence purposes its fine to use root.

// Instantiate the object with user $userID and put it in section 1.
$contentObject =& $class->instantiate( $userID, 1 );

$name = "Blah?"; //What should this be?
//Answer: Object name

$contentObject->setAttribute( 'name', $name );

$parentNodeID = ? // choose where to put the user

$nodeAssignment =& eZNodeAssignment::create( array(
'contentobject_id' => $contentObject->attribute( 'id' ),
'contentobject_version' => $contentObject->attribute( 'current_version' ),
'parent_node' => $parentNodeID,
'sort_field' => 2,
'sort_order' => 0,
'is_main' => 1
)
);
$nodeAssignment->store();

$version =& $contentObject->version( 1 );

$version->setAttribute( 'status', EZ_VERSION_STATUS_DRAFT );
$version->store();

$contentObjectID = $contentObject->attribute( 'id' );
$contentObjectAttributes =& $version->contentObjectAttributes();

// Set attribute valuse for this class depending on attributes it has and its attribute datatype
// Should be setAttribute( 'data_int', $attributeValue ) if the attribute is integer.
// If user, image, binary file, you also need to stort something in extra tables.
//You need to know how does
// eZ publish store these kind of content.
$contentObjectAttributes[0]->setAttribute( 'data_text', $attributeValue );
$contentObjectAttributes[0]->store();

$contentObjectAttributes[1]->setAttribute( 'data_text', $attributeValue );
$contentObjectAttributes[1]->store();

...

$contentObject->store();

// Publish it
include_once( 'lib/ezutils/classes/ezoperationhandler.php' );
$operationResult = eZOperationHandler::execute( 'content', 'publish', array( 'object_id' => $contentObjectID,
'version' => 1 ) );

Monday 22 September 2003 9:01:35 am

wenyue, (or whoever else knows), you mentioned that storing binary files need to store information in other tables. Can you expand on this a little. For instance say I have a file called test.pdf that I want to store with my content. Its located in C:\temp (or even better, as a blob in another mysql db table) how would I do this, using your sample code?

$contentObjectAttributes[0]->setAttribute( 'binaryfile', $attributeValue );
$contentObjectAttributes[0]->store();

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Tuesday 23 September 2003 5:35:52 am

Hi,

It is a little bit complex to store binary file. It may work using following code:

$contentObjectAttribute =& $contentObjectAttributes[1]; // binary attribute

// $fileFileName and $fileOriginalFileName
// could be the same, for example "test.pdf"
saveFile( $fileFileName, $fileOriginalFileName, $contentObjectAttribute );
$contentObjectAttributes[1]->store();

// First, you need to put all files you want to
//upload under folder var/storage/files/ before you
//use this function
function saveFile( $fileFileName, $fileOriginalFileName, &$contentObjectAttribute )
{
include_once( "kernel/classes/datatypes/ezbinaryfile/ezbinaryfile.php" );
include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezmimetype.php" );
include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezdir.php" );
$contentObjectAttributeID = $contentObjectAttribute->attribute( "id" );
$version = $contentObjectAttribute->attribute( "version" );

$file =& eZBinaryFile::create( $contentObjectAttributeID , $version );

$file->setAttribute( "contentobject_attribute_id", $contentObjectAttributeID );
$file->setAttribute( "version", $version );
$file->setAttribute( "filename", $fileFileName );
$file->setAttribute( "original_filename", $fileOriginalFileName );

$mimeObj = new eZMimeType();
$mime = $mimeObj->mimeTypeFor( false, $fileOriginalFileName );
$file->setAttribute( "mime_type", $mime );
$file->store();

$sys =& eZSys::instance();
$storage_dir = $sys->storageDirectory();

list( $subdir, $extension )= split ("/", $mime );

$file_dir = $storage_dir . '/' . "original/" . $subdir;

if ( !file_exists( $file_dir ) )
{
eZDir::mkdir( $file_dir, 0777, true);
}

$source_file = $storage_dir . "/files/$fileFileName";
$target_file = $storage_dir . "/original/" . $subdir . "/$fileFileName";
copy($source_file, $target_file );
}

Thursday 25 September 2003 8:58:41 am

Its official: at 8:30pm PST I successfully saved new content which includes searchable PDF's with code!

Thanks Wenyue for your help!

Dave

Wednesday 08 October 2003 3:17:05 am

Hello folks,
would it be possible to have a look at the code you produced to achieve this. It would be very much appreciated. If you put it out as a comment here or sent me an email: cuj[att]norgit[dot]no. Thanks in advance:)

And by the way, thanks to ez for sometimes sharing some of that information;)

cheers,
claÜs

Friday 02 December 2005 2:45:43 am

another type of problem :)
i have some code to create+save attribute+upload file...
almost everything work (everything work its mean - name, description stored, file saved in storage) , but file attribute didn't saved
(myme_type, size, etc)

function saveFile( $fileFileName, $fileOriginalFileName, &$contentObjectAttribute )
{
include_once( "kernel/classes/datatypes/ezbinaryfile/ezbinaryfile.php" );
include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezmimetype.php" );
include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezdir.php" );
$contentObjectAttributeID = $contentObjectAttribute->attribute( "id" );
$version = $contentObjectAttribute->attribute( "version" );

// Create a new mime object.
$mimeObj = new eZMimeType();
$mime = $mimeObj->mimeTypeFor( false, strtolower( $fileOriginalFileName ) );

list( $subdir, $extension )= split ("/", $mime );

$file =& eZBinaryFile::create( $contentObjectAttributeID , $version );
$file->setAttribute( "contentobject_attribute_id", $contentObjectAttributeID );
$file->setAttribute( "version", $version );
$file->setAttribute( "filename", $fileFileName );
$file->setAttribute( "original_filename", $fileFileName );
$file->setAttribute( "mime_type", $mime );	

$file->store();

$sys =& eZSys::instance();
$storage_dir = $sys->storageDirectory();

$file_dir = $storage_dir . '/' . "original/" . $subdir;
if ( !file_exists( $file_dir ) )
{
eZDir::mkdir( $file_dir, 0777, true);
}

$source_file = "c:/temp/".$fileFileName;
$target_file = $storage_dir . "/original/" . $subdir . "/$fileFileName";
copy($source_file, $target_file );
}