For more detail, see my argument on pp. 233-4 of Drupal 7 Module Development.
/me apologizes slightly for the shameless book plug.
On Jan 28, 2011, at 9:06 PM, "David Cohen" <dru...@dave-cohen.com> wrote:
> In D6, creating content via drupal_execute() was difficult. In D7 using
> drupal_form_submit() seems even more so. Thanks to fields, I can't tell
> how to pass in the body of a comment or node.
>
> Does anyone have an example snippet that creates a comment via
> drupal_form_submit(). Or any other programmatic way?
>
> I'm building my comment during a cron job. I want the automatically
> generated comment to be attributed to the Anonymous user. But,
> anonymous does not have permission to "post comments", and
> comment_form_submit() refuses to save the new comment unless
> user_access('post comments'). I consider that a bug - that check is
> made before showing the form and should not be made during submit. What
> do you think? http://drupal.org/node/1044212
>
> -Dave
>
