Wordpress: Create pages through database? - database

Question

Currently I am working on a new traveling website, but am having problems with 1 thing:
I have a list with all the country's, regions and city's i want to publish. How do I quickly create a page for all of them like this:
Every page should be a subpage like: country/region/city
Every page should have a certain page template
Please let me know, thanks in advance for your time and information!

Answer 1

You can do something like this.
<?php
// $country_list = get_country_list(); // returns list, of the format eg. array('India' => 'Content for the country India', 'Australia' => 'Content for the country Australia')
// $region_list = get_region_list($country); // Get the list of regions for given country, Assuming similar format as country.
// $city_list = get_city_list($region); // Get the list of cities for given region, Assuming similar format as country
/* Code starts here...*/
$country_list = get_country_list();
foreach($country_list as $country_title => $country_content) {
$country_template = 'template_country.php';
$country_page_id = add_new_page($country_title, $country_content, $country_template);
// validate if id is not 0 and break loop or take needed action.
$region_list = get_region_list($country_title);
foreach($region_list as $region_title => $region_content) {
$region_template = 'template_region.php';
$region_page_id = add_new_page($region_title, $region_content, $region_template, $country_page_id);
// validate if id is not 0 and break loop or take needed action.
$city_list = get_city_list($region_title);
foreach($city_list as $city_title => $city_content) {
$city_template = 'template_city.php';
add_new_page($city_title, $city_content, $city_template, $region_page_id);
}
}
}
function add_new_page($title, $content, $template_file, $post_parent = 0) {
$post = array();
$post['post_title'] = $title;
$post['post_content'] = $content;
$post['post_parent'] = $post_parent;
$post['post_status'] = 'publish'; // Can be 'draft' / 'private' / 'pending' / 'future'
$post['post_author'] = 1; // This should be the id of the author.
$post['post_type'] = 'page';
$post_id = wp_insert_post($post);
// check if wp_insert_post is successful
if(0 != $post_id) {
// Set the page template
update_post_meta($post_id, '_wp_page_template', $template_file); // Change the default template to custom template
}
return $post_id;
}
Warning: Make sure that the is executed only once or add any validation to avoid duplicate pages.