[wp-pro] Re: creating a new post (ML)

[Scot Hacker]

>
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:32:36 +0000
> From: ML <utugau at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wp-pro] creating a new post
>
> I need to create a php script to populate a wordpress database with  
> posts.
> That script is to be run by terminal (not thru the web) and will  
> read the
> posts from a text file and insert them on the WP database. This  
> script is to
> be run without wordpress.

Create a script that lives inside a theme folder and that includes the  
WP header (like you would find near the top of index.php):

<?php
get_header();
?>

then gather up your title, content, etc. vars and pass them to the  
wp_insert_post function:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

Then run your script from the command line from the theme dir.

./s