Posted by radiodee1 on 

I'm working on a drupal 7 module, and I've got a 'help' document that I want to programmatically include when the module is loaded. The 'help text' in question has some html included, and I would like to preserve it. In drupal 6 I did something like this:

  $newnode = array (
    'title' => 'help page',
    'uid' => 1,
    'type' => 'page',
    'status' => 1,
    'promote' => 1,
    'format' => 2,
    'body' => $helptext, // contents for help node with html
  );
  node_save($newnode);

In drupal 7 I can get the contents of the 'help text' saved as a node, BUT the html is not all preserved. I thought setting 'format' to 2 would fix this problem, but it doesn't. My code now looks something like that below. How do I get full html for my help text?
  $newnode = array (
    'title' => array ( FIELD_LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => "Help Page"))),
    'uid' => 1,
    'type' => 'page',
    'status' => 1,
    'promote' => 1,
    'format' => 2,
    'body' => array(FIELD_LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array())),
  );
  $body = array(
    'value' => $helptext,
    'input_format' => null,
  );
  $newnode['body'][FIELD_LANGUAGE_NONE][0] += $body;
  $node = (object) $newnode;
  node_save($node);

Thanks for your time. I hope I haven't forgotten anything. Any help would be appreciated.
⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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radiodee1 commented 

I think I figured it out on my own. This is the new version:

  $newnode = array (
    'title' => array ( FIELD_LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array('value' => "Help Page"))),
    'uid' => 1,
    'type' => 'page',
    'status' => 1,
    'promote' => 1,
    'format' => 2,
    'body' => array(FIELD_LANGUAGE_NONE => array(array())),
  );
  $body = array(
    'value' => $helptext,
    'input_format' => null,
    'format' => 2, // << this is the new code!
  );
  $newnode['body'][FIELD_LANGUAGE_NONE][0] += $body;
  $node = (object) $newnode;
  node_save($node);