[SOLVED] Loading content via a UDT - API?

[essexboyracer]

Is it possible to load content into CMSMS via a UDT, perhaps via the API?

I am thinking of parsing affiliate product feeds and loading each 'part' or product as a page, therefore needing to update things like menu name, title, content, page URL and possibly even Page Specific Metadata.

I can already parse a feed and load it onto my own mysql table, but would like to automate the process of building pages with it. You could call it autoblogging perhaps.

[essexboyracer]

The function in CGContentUtils.module.php , _createDomContentObj(), looks like what I need to do, but how to get that into a UDT?

[Jos]

Something like this?

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$gCms = cmsms();
$CGContentUtils = $gCms->modules['CGContentUtils']['object'];

$content = $CGContentUtils->_createDomContentObj(doesittakeanyparameters?);

[essexboyracer]

Really? that easy! are there any docs for this, so I can learn it myself?

[Jos]

Docs... maybe the wiki handbook http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... fined_Tags

This kind of code is also all around in this forum

[essexboyracer]

I need a bit more assistance with this one, any ideas? I am fine creating a UDT, but using other modules and whether they "takeanyparameters" loses me a bit

[essexboyracer]

Nervermind, I found Symphony CMS which uses XML as its default data storage and templating, ideal for XML product feeds