Anyone familiar in Drupal 6 Services module specifically node.save - drupal

I can save/update on regular fields but I'm having trouble saving/updating CCK fields. here's an example node.save() XML request - http://pastebin.com/m5ceca16

I'm assuming your XML data mirrors the node object format.
A CCK field 'field_custom' will be accessible via $node->field_custom. Regardless of type and the limit on number of entries, fields are always arrays. If the CCK field only allows one entry, it is $node->field_custom[0].
The indexes below that level depend on the field type. Most, especially numeric and text fields, are 'value' (eg., $node->field_custom[0] = 'foo'). I've used Nodereference fields which use 'nid', from which I would assume Userreference fields use 'uid'.
The structure of your XML seems correct. I would check the structure of a node object on the site (using a var_dump() or the devel module) to make sure all of your array keys and variable names are correct for your field and field type.

2 things to check:
A var_dump of the results of a node_load() doesn't give you the exact format you should use. Your XML must emulate the input format of the node edit form. So while a var_dump might show you several taxonomy terms in an array, the node edit form may expect the taxonomy terms separated by commas. Off-hand I don't see any fields in your example that this would seem to apply to but I mention it anyway.
Your "changed" timestamp must not be in the future, nor must it be too far in the past. The node will not save if this is off by much. This can be an issue if the clocks on one of the computers isn't very accurate. I had an issue where my services server was about 20 seconds behind my services client so all the updates were getting rejected (the server apparently rejected them on the grounds that they were from the future).

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Magnolia CMS, Content app, naming a node from a property

I have a content app with a dominating unique field that I would like to use as the node name for new nodes. The problem is that it contains characters that cannot be part of a JCR node name, and thus if I were to link it to jcrName rather than a custom property it will get mutated into something that isn't useful for the fields original purpose (among others, the field value will contain slashes).
My current solution adds an additional field for the node name, and while this certainly works, it adds a UI field to the detail for no reason that is apparent to the users of the app.
Is there a way to have a field that reads and writes a string value to a custom property, yet that is also used (in its clened form) to name the node?
You could use this as a base, paying special attention to the code in 2.b.ii. (especially setNodeName), and ignoring the yaml bits.
I hope this helps!

Wordpress: Creating a thorough custom post type for recipes

I am currently trying to create a custom post type for recipes. My goal is to include the schema.org/Recipe and or hrecipe microformat and also have the ability to filter for ingredients in the future.
To do this I intend to have an interface with fields for title, photo, description, ingredients and instructions.
My question is: Should I create separate fields for each ingredient and each amount? Or would you say it is sufficient to just create one field for all ingredients? (also keeping the aforementioned microformats in mind).
http://schema.org/Recipe
http://microformats.org/wiki/hrecipe
Having ingredients as a single field is what is expected in both formats you linked to. Querying / filtering based on ingredient name will be slightly more complex...but you should be able to handle it.
There are 3 parts to this answer.
How should you save ingredients in WordPress
How should you allow users to modify the ingredients list
How should you display ingredients publicly
For point 1, you will have to give a bit of thought as to how you save the ingredient list and how you retrieve/display it along with how it is queried. One of the formats indicate you could have properties for each ingredient (still in draft).
You could save an ingredient list as a serialized PHP array, something like this:
$ingredients[]=array('milk','value'=>'125','type'=>'ml');
$ingredients[]=array('sugar','value'=>'1','type'=>'cup');
Since serialized PHP arrays are standardized, you could fairly easily write an WP query that takes it into account.
Keep in mind you will want to have a plan for when the 'value' and 'type' modifiers are set in stone and how to migrate what you saved if they are different.
For point 2, you could create a custom meta box that deserializes the PHP array saved and render individual controls for each ingredient along with controls to allow management (Add, Deletes, Updates).
For point 3....the easiest would be to get the value and manipulate it how you want in the output.

Complex Rule in Drupal involving multiple entities

I need to create a fairly complex rule in Drupal - I am willing to use either code or the interface to do so.
I am more familiar with the interface, however, as opposed to the Rules API.
Anyway, the rule will be as follows:
It will happen based on a form submission from entityforms (which is one entity). It will take the checkbox value of a field (not just the true or false, but rather the value submitted when a value is true or false). It will convert this number to an integer.
At this point things get interesting - I want to create a new entity of registrations (a different entity), which as far as I can tell, means I'll have to bring a registration into scope. I also need to bring node (and not just node: type and other data selectors, but specifically node) into scope, because the next step requires it.
So at this point, I should have three entities loaded into scope:
entityforms
registration
node
I believe the best way to bring registration into scope would be entity is of type? The documentation page says that content of type should be appropriate - but that seems like it might be related to the specific use case of the example - not in my more complex example where registration isn't the first entity dealt with, but rather a second.
https://drupal.org/node/1463042
So anyway, if all three of these entities is called in correctly, the ultimate result should be the following:
Value from boolean field (not the straight 1 or 0, but whatever the value to be submitted is switched to) from the entityform is converted to an integer, and inserted where entity host ID is required. In the section where host entity type is the value should be node.
I am also open to alternative suggestions if this seems overly complex or poorly architected.
The Host Entity Type cannot be of Entityform? Why be a Node since a Registration can be attached to any entity? Then you will get the id of the Entityform as also as any other fields from that entity type instead of Node. Next steps are the same.

Tridion 2011 SP1 CD API - retrieve content tagged with keyword

We're designing schemas for content that we want to retrieve via the CD API based upon a Keyword field. From an API point of view, I'm wondering if it makes a difference if this field is a Content field or a Metadata field:
Looking at the API docs, there's a TaxonomyKeywordCriteria available to query all content which are related to a specific Keyword which I can pass to Query object.
This only applies to Keyword fields in custom metadata, correct?
There's also the TaxonomyRelationManager class which has a GetTaxonomyContent method as well as the GetTaxonomyComponentPresentations method in the ComponentPresentationFactory class.
These would apply to Keyword fields in content or custom metadata?
Is there any performance difference between the API calls to be aware of?
The Keyword field is important from an editorial point of view so I'm leaning towards creating it as content field rather than it being "hidden" under the metadata tab.
Cheers
EDIT
Initial (quick & dirty!) tests show TaxonomyRelationManager is x10 quicker than ComponentPresentationFactory, which is x1.5 quicker that Query.
However ComponentPresentationFactory contains actual content rather than just TCM IDs which could be more useful in my scenario.
Normal content fields don't automatically get published to the broker. Keyword fields are the exception to this: a keyword field is automatically metadata even if it's on the content tab.
I see you've already answered the performance part of your question yourself.
As far as I'm aware only Metadata fields get published to the Broker, Content fields don't. So if you need to query against the keyword field it would need to be a Metadata field.

Views 3 Relationship Handler

I am trying to write a relationship handler for Views 3 in Drupal 7, but am failing even to begin.
Basically, I have a bunch of nodes of various types all with the same field attached to them. This field is a reference field linking off to a Civicrm contact - but that's not important, as essentially these fields just contain integers.
Now, let's say I have a node of content type 'story', and its reference field contains the integer, oh, let's say 55. In addition, there are nodes of content type 'news' which also contain the reference ID 55.
I want to build a block view, that sits on the story page, that reads in the node's nid as its argument, and then through a relationship it discovers all other nodes that contain the same reference integer as itself.
(In my head, the sql looks something like: SELECT n.nid FROM node n INNER JOIN node n2 ON n.reference = n2.reference [Assuming, for the sake of simplicity, the field data is kept in the node table]).
How do I create a Views handler that caters for this relationship? The only documentation I can find is the views api, which is for version 2 and not 3, and besides is utterly unhelpful. Reading various module's views handlers is not helping either, and views tutorials on the web are almost non-existent.
What are you doing and what is the problem? It sounds like you have everything you need right here...the nid as an argument and the reference field as a relationship. What are your filters set to? and what display type are you using? You could just have the block display some information without sorting, arguments, or relationships and then using the devel module you can change the tpl file for the block to dpm($views) and see what information you have access to.
Let us know what you have configured so far and what your results are if any. Remember that you can use the nid as an argument in the preview, so if the nid is 213 you can type 213 in the preview field (make sure the display is set to the block you are talking about) and see what comes up.
Good luck.

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