can't create new drupal 6 nodes, as another user, using drupal_execute

Question

I'm trying to create Drupal nodes using drupal_execute and it works fine. The only issue is that I can't add the new node as another user than the signed in user.

Seems like $form_state['values']['name'] has no effect!

Is this even possible?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

See https://drupal.org/node/178506#comment-726479 - although it mentions Drupal 5.7 at first, it applies to Drupal 6 too. The gist of it is, you have to (safely) impersonate another user. By doing that you get access to whatever function the user has access to.

Impersonating users is as simple as

global $user;
$original_user = $user;
$old_state = session_save_session();
session_save_session(FALSE);
$user = user_load(array('uid' => 1));

// Take your action here where you pretend to be the user with UID = 1 (typically the admin user on a site)
// If your code fails, it's not a problem because the session will not be saved
$user = $original_user;
session_save_session($old_state);

// From here on the $user is back to normal so it's OK for the session to be saved

Then the action you must take is to run drupal_execute() with the form array you have.