Moving Objects via PHP & Cron

Sunday 03 July 2005 2:12:14 am

Timmothy:
I have used this code, wich works well to fetch the node, provided you know the object id. (In my case, the object id of a user account, $userID).

$object = eZContentObject::fetch($userID);
$node = eZContentObjectTreeNode::fetch($object->attribute('main_node_id'));

However, trying to move the node does not completely succeed. I am using this call:

$node->move($to_node_id);

Looking up the ezcontentobject_tree table, I find that parent_node_id and path_string have been correctly changed to the new location. The path_identification_string, however, refers to the old location. Consequently, the object is left in an unfinished state. When I open the object for editing, and then saves it, it gets cleaned up, but falls back to the old location.

I have searched the forum, and seen "$node->move($to_node_id);" several places, but to me it doesn't seem to work properly.

Any experience with this?

Monday 04 July 2005 7:14:51 am

Ralph,

it seems we have the same problem... I tried different variants of code, including something very similar to your code, but whichever solution, the object ended up with a node assignment as some kind of a combination of the old and the new assignment.

An idea could be to track down what the kernel does when you manually move an object by pushing the "move"-button. I want to do the exact same thing in code. Haven't had the time to look further into it after I temporarly gave up the $node->move function last night.

Pål J

Sunday 09 July 2006 6:31:09 am

Hi,

Thank you to all the previous posters. I am submitting my implementation of the move code.

I used this thread and this one: http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/moving_an_object_through_php

I also used <b>create.php</b> - <i>Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Björn Dieding, xrow GbR Germany. All rights reserved.</i>

include_once( 'kernel/classes/ezcontentobject.php' );
include_once( 'kernel/classes/ezcontentobjecttreenode.php' );
include_once( 'kernel/classes/ezcontentobjecttreenodeoperations.php' );

include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezextension.php" );
include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezmodule.php" );
include_once( 'lib/ezutils/classes/ezcli.php' );
include_once( 'kernel/classes/ezscript.php' );

$script =& eZScript::instance( array( 'debug-message' => true,
                                      'use-session' => true,
                                      'use-modules' => true,
                                      'use-extensions' => true ) );

$script->startup();
$script->initialize();
include_once("lib/ezutils/classes/ezcli.php");
$cli =& eZCLI::instance();
$cli->setUseStyles( true ); // enable colors

$params=array();
$parentNodeID=100; // For example
$newfolderNodeID=200; 

$childNodes =& eZContentObjectTreeNode::subTree($params, $parentNodeID );

if (count($childNodes) === 0)
{
      echo "No data returned\n"; die();
}
foreach( $childNodes as $child )
{
      $childObj = $child->attribute( 'object' );
      $nodeID=$child->NodeID;
      $objData = $childObj->dataMap();
      $name= $objData['name']->content();  

      $doMove = ($name === "target_value");  // For example
      // Insert code to check $name, set $doMove to true if this objects needs to be moved
      if ($doMove)
      {
            if (!eZContentObjectTreeNodeOperations::move( $nodeID, $newfolderNodeID )) 
              echo "Move failed\n";
      }
}

$cli->output("Done",true);
$script->shutdown();

I stripped out my application specific code, but this code should work, or be close enough.

I used <b>var_dump($variable);</b> to help me "see" the data - and it was very valuable.

I also created a very simple class, with only enough attributes to test the code - and ran it in a development area (different server) to reduce the risk of corrupting live data.

Good luck,

Betsy