How to create new com_content article via PHP?

[Ruud van Lent]

Hi,

been searching on what is the best practice for creating programmatically new articles in com_content.

Found solutions ranging from directly saving to the database to creating a $data array manually and saving that via the article model.

But what is the preferred and 'supported' way of doing this?

thanks in advance!

regards,

Ruud.

[Allon Moritz]

I would always go through the model.

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[Ruud van Lent]

Hi, Thanks for the follow up. I am trying to follow the model route, not sure if this can be improved?

        $contentModel = BaseDatabaseModel::getInstance('Article', 'ContentModel', array('ignore_request' => true));

        // Create $article array from object and remove '_errors' from array
        $article = get_object_vars($contentModel->getItem());
        unset($article['_errors']);

This results in an $article array

        $article['title'] = $title;
        $article['articletext'] = $content;
        $article['catid'] = (int) $categoryID;
        $article['created_by'] = $author;
        $article['state'] = (int) $publish;

        // Set Article default values
        $article['language'] = '*';
        $article['attribs'] = '{"article_layout":"","show_title":"","link_titles":"","show_tags":"","show_intro":"","info_block_position":"","info_block_show_title":"","show_category":"","link_category":"","show_parent_category":"","link_parent_category":"","show_associations":"","show_author":"","link_author":"","show_create_date":"","show_modify_date":"","show_publish_date":"","show_item_navigation":"","show_icons":"","show_print_icon":"","show_email_icon":"","show_vote":"","show_hits":"","show_noauth":"","urls_position":"","alternative_readmore":"","article_page_title":"","show_publishing_options":"","show_article_options":"","show_urls_images_backend":"","show_urls_images_frontend":""}';
        $article['metadata'] = '{"robots":"","author":"","rights":"","xreference":""}';

        // Make sure that the article gets a unique alias before saving
        if ($article['alias'] == null || empty($article['alias']))
        {
            if (JFactory::getConfig()->get('unicodeslugs') == 1)
            {
                $article['alias'] = JFilterOutput::stringURLUnicodeSlug($article['title']);
            }
            else
            {
                $article['alias'] = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($article['title']);
            }

            $table = JTable::getInstance('Content', 'JTable');

            while ($table->load(array('alias' => $article['alias'], 'catid' => $article['catid'])))
            {
                    $article['alias'] = StringHelper::increment($article['alias'], 'dash');
            }
        }

Adding the minimum required data to it

        $result = $contentModel->save($article);

Saving the $article data via the model.