Forum: Radiant CMS Programmatically creating pages

In reference to my previous post - as I'm importing content into
Radiant from Wordpress, how do I go about setting the created_by to a
user? Every time I set the value, it's always NULL that ends up in the
table (although updated_by is working just fine)


Is there a hook in the code that I haven't spotted that's doing this?

On 9 Dec 2010, at 16:13, Neil wrote:

> In reference to my previous post - as I'm importing content into Radiant from 
Wordpress, how do I go about setting the created_by to a user?  Every time I set 
the value, it's always NULL that ends up in the table (although updated_by is 
working just fine)
>
> Is there a hook in the code that I haven't spotted that's doing this?

Yes, probably. UserActionObserver sets created_by in a before_create 
filter that isn't visible from the Page class itself. In the console or 
a rake task there is no current user, so it nulls any existing 
association.

Are you scripting the import? In that case you just need to set 
UserActionObserver.current_user to a user object before you create the 
pages. If you're assigning a different user to each page, the easiest 
way is just to do it in another operation after creation.

And re:

> The /blog part I can deal with, but the day is causing me issues.  Is
> there any way I can get Radiant to work without the day part in the
> route?

I don't use the archive extension - which is responsible for your urls 
here - but looking at the code, the url format will be quite hard to 
change. It's spelt out in several places and used to support the 
day/month/year views. Perhaps an easier option would be to print the old 
and new paths as the posts are imported and use that output to create 
many specific rewrite rules rather than one general one?

best,

will