I continue to find useful the script I posted some time ago that creates a basic site structure in Drupal. Its not uncommon that a customer will want a leg up on migrating their content into Drupal, or will have a basic structure in mind even before they fill it with content.

I recently started working in Drupal 6, now that many of the modules I typically use are at least in beta for Drupal 6. So, I found that I needed to update the script as follows:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
error_reporting(E_ERROR);
// check the command line args, provide help
if ($argc != 1 || in_array($argv[1], array('--help', '-help', '-h', '-?'))) {
?>

This is a command line PHP script.

Use it as indicated to create the structure of a site, complete with placeholder
pages, custom paths and proper placement in the menu structure without the
tedium of the Drupal GUI. Then the content of each page can be customized.

Usage: <?php echo $argv[0]; ?>

When run from the root of the Drupal install, it looks for a file in that
directory called structure.import with the following format:

  <url path> | <menu label> | <page title>
  - <url path> | <menu label> | <page title>
  -- <url path> | <menu label> | <page title>

The lines in this file are in order, optionally with an '-' character at the
beginning to indicate placement in the hierarchy.

Only one or two elements may be specified on each line, the remaining fields
will be deduced. Capitalization is normalized and whitespace trimmed.

With --help, -help, -h, or -? options, you can get this help.

<?php
}

// load in necessary Drupal classes, database connection information
require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);

// file format configuration
$levelDelim = '-';
$elementDelim = '|';

// track levels
// for each level, map parent ids to current weight for an item on that parent
// 1=navigation, 2=primary links
$levels[] = array(1,0);

$import = "structure.import";
if (file_exists($import)) {
  $lines = file($import);

  foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
    if (trim($line) != '') {
      $elements = explode($elementDelim, $line);
      $level = substr_count($elements[0], $levelDelim) + 1;

      $path = $elements[0];
      $path = str_replace($levelDelim, '', $path);
      $path = trim($path);
      $path = strtolower($path);

      $label=ucwords($path);
      $title=$label;
      if (isset($elements[1])) {
        $label = trim($elements[1]);
      }
      if (substr_count($path, ' ')) {
        $path = str_replace(' ', '_', $path);
      }
      if (isset($elements[2])) {
        $title = trim($elements[2]);
      }

      // create the page
      $node = new StdClass();
      $node->uid = 1;
      $node->type = 'page';
      $node->status = 1; // published
      $node->promote = 0; // don't promote to front page
      $node->path = $path; // ?q=path
      $node->format=3; // full HTML
      $node->title = $title;
      $node->body = ''; // add later
      node_save($node);

      $parentLevel = $level-1;
      $parentLevelInfo =& $levels[$parentLevel];

      // create the menu item
      $menuItem = array();
      $menuItem['plid'] = $parentLevelInfo[0];
      $parentLevelInfo[1]++;
      $menuItem['weight']=$parentLevelInfo[1];
      $menuItem['link_path']='node/' . $node->nid;
      $menuItem['link_title']=$label;
      $menuItem['type']=118; // see includes/menu.inc
      menu_link_save($menuItem);

      $levels[$level] = array($menuItem['mlid'],0);
    }
  }

} else {
  echo "\n\nNo import file: $import found.\n";
}
?>

Basically, its mostly the same as before except that the menu API has changed somewhat. This seems to recreate the version 5 results.