How do I programatically add a new Page to Silverstripe?

Question

I'm trying to add pages to the Silverstripe Site tree using a background process that calls an external API.

I'm just trying to get the code to create a new Programme Page right. At the moment I have:

$mySiteTree = new SiteTree();
$mySiteTree->ClassName = "Programme";
$mySiteTree->URLSegment = $newurl;
$mySiteTree->URLSegment = 'testurl';
$mySiteTree->Title = 'testing title';
$mySiteTree->ShowInMenus = '1';
$mySiteTree->ParentID = '86';
$mySiteTree->write();

This doesn't seem to create any page. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong or what I could try to do to debug this?

possible duplicate of [SilverStripe 3.1 - Page creating & publishing from the FrontEnd](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21671943/silverstripe-3-1-page-creating-publishing-from-the-frontend) — Zauberfisch, Feb 14 '14 at 13:51
A similar question has just been asked a couple of days ago. Please checkout http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21671943/silverstripe-3-1-page-creating-publishing-from-the-frontend - I suggest this to be closed as duplicate — Zauberfisch, Feb 14 '14 at 13:52
SiteTree, should be page. A good reference is the built in default records.. https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-cms/blob/3.1/code/model/SiteTree.php#L1419 — wilr, Feb 15 '14 at 09:33

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '14 at 22:52

There are a few things missing from your code and a few things that need to be fixed:

When creating the new page call new Programme() rather than new SiteTree()
You should not set the ClassName, the above change will take care of this
There is no need to set the URLSegment. Silverstripe will automatically do this based on the Title you set
Make sure a page with ID 86 exists
You need to call ->publish('Stage', 'Live') and ->flushCache()

The following code should work:

$mySiteTree = new Programme();
$mySiteTree->Title = 'testing title';
$mySiteTree->ShowInMenus = '1';
$mySiteTree->ParentID = '86';
$mySiteTree->write();
$mySiteTree->publish('Stage', 'Live');
$mySiteTree->flushCache();

Make sure you first change current Stage to "Stage". AFAIK the call to `$mySiteTree->write();` will otherwise write to Live as well. — bummzack, Feb 28 '17 at 09:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 27 '17 at 20:50

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Have a look at the CMS Unit Tests. They're an excellent example of how to create pages and other records programmatically. This one in particular should get you started.

edited Feb 27 '17 at 20:50

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How do I programatically add a new Page to Silverstripe?

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