Create sample nodes for display [#964188]

Attached is a full module, for review, that does two things:

1) Allows preview of Nodes per type in StyleGuide,
2) Auto-generates nodes for preview. These auto-generated nodes are unpublished, and should generate some random CCK and node data.

Needs testing and (better) field handling. The method might also be of use to devel_generate, but I don't want to introduce the dependency during development.

Written for D6, should be portable to D7.

Comment	File	Size	Author
	styleguide_node.zip	3.7 KB	agentrickard

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Comment #1

agentrickard

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CreditAttribution: agentrickard commented 6 November 2010 at 16:35

These lines (93-95) should really be commented out for real testing:

  if (empty($nid)) {
    $nid = db_result(db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE type = '%s' ORDER BY created ASC", $type));
  }

Comment #2

Dublin Drupaller CreditAttribution: Dublin Drupaller commented 25 May 2011 at 10:15

this is very useful. it's generating sample nodes, where nodes don't exist but not quite generating the cck fields attached to node types as well.

furthermore...it appears to be generating a full node...rather a mix between teaser and full node. in other words, when I generate a sample event node, for example, it outputs a linked h2 title rather than a regaular h2 node title.

will try and find some time to help improve this module...and add-on...it could be a superb tool for testing or doing quality control on a theme.

dub

Comment #3

squiggy CreditAttribution: squiggy commented 18 August 2011 at 20:33

This looks great. It would be super useful to be able to preview all node types on a site. I had done something similar, except if there was no node created for a content type, it provided a link to create it.

@Dublin Drupaller, Did you ever figure out the issue with the title being linked in full node view?