Now this one is pretty annoying to.
I'm writing a module that imports data into nodes. Sometimes this data has already been imported, and I only want to update existing rows with changes, if any.
After pulling in a row of data from the import file, I see if it already exists as a node in my database. If it does, I grab the node ID and load the existing node:
$node = node_load($existing_nid);I then do some magical stuff and save the node using the standard:
