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Drupal Set term programmatically for a node

I want to update some nodes in my system and update a particular taxonomy attach to them. I need to do this work programmatically. I have node ids and term id and want to attach this term to this particular node. What should do the trick here??

Thanks

Solution

  • To get the node:

    $node = node_load($X); // $X is node ID.

    To attache a term ID - note that this is very different in D7:

    $node->taxonomy[$tid] = taxonomy_get_term($tid); // $tid is attaching term ID.

    To add revision: 

    $node->revision = 1; 
$node->log = "Programatically attached taxonomy term.";

    To save the node - if the node is new:

    node_submit($node);
node_save($node);

    or, to save the node if it's an existing node:

    node_save($node);

    In Drupal 7, terms are attached as normal field items so field_first_name[0] means the first occurrence of the field. Don't confuse that functionality with terms. You can add as many as terms you want.

    Update: Thanks to kliker for the edit, which was unfortunately rejected. It seems I have to edit the post myself to get his changed into this answer.