Updates all nodes in the passed-in array with the passed-in field values.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This function is intended to work when called from a form submission handler. Calling it outside of the form submission process may not work correctly.
array $nodes: Array of node nids to update.
array $updates: Array of key/value pairs with node field names and the value to update that field to.
function node_mass_update($nodes, $updates) {
// We use batch processing to prevent timeout when updating a large number
// of nodes.
if (count($nodes) > 10) {
$batch = array(
'operations' => array(
array(
'_node_mass_update_batch_process',
array(
$nodes,
$updates,
),
),
),
'finished' => '_node_mass_update_batch_finished',
'title' => t('Processing'),
// We use a single multi-pass operation, so the default
// 'Remaining x of y operations' message will be confusing here.
'progress_message' => '',
'error_message' => t('The update has encountered an error.'),
// The operations do not live in the .module file, so we need to
// tell the batch engine which file to load before calling them.
'file' => drupal_get_path('module', 'node') . '/node.admin.inc',
);
batch_set($batch);
}
else {
foreach ($nodes as $nid) {
_node_mass_update_helper($nid, $updates);
}
drupal_set_message(t('The update has been performed.'));
}
}