Importing flexicontent items

I've written code to gather xml formatted content from several external sources, then import them as FC items. I'm only concerned about a single FC item type for the time being.

Two questions:

1 - What data is required for me to create a new item?
2 - What is the best way for me to import each new item programmatically?

Thanks!

Mike

FLEXIcontent backend items controller (controllers/items.php) has a task for importing (function import() )

this task is called by the backend FLEXIcontent import CSV view (views/import/view.html.php)

Because this view is configurable maybe you could use it without any changes

so, have you checked out the import view?

I have not, but will, thanks.

How is the csv file formatted? Is there any documentation on the import view?

Is there a way to pass the data along to the importcsv() method?

CSV file Format?

If you click to the backend FLEXIcontent import tab, you will see the configuration option and an sample file,

-- you can have different format if you want, but there is a suggested format there

-- the import task works by parsing the data from the CSV file and passing them to the store() function of the item's model,

-- it supports fields that have multiple properties per field value (see example), to see the name of the properties open for e.g. email field, open file plugins/flexicontent_fields/weblink/weblink.php (but for weblink the name of the properties is also in the example)

I have been able to import messages with this wonderful new feature. Is it possible to use FlexicontentControllerItems::importcsv() from within a joomla cli script - for cron job use? Or possibly possibly create an option to kick this off as a cron job?

How would I call it?

Thanks!

Mike