Is it possible to publish from my local computer a node in my drupal page remotely?

Question

I wonder if it is possible from a SH script on my local computer, publishing content on a remote installation of drupal.

Why have a gammu sms gateway and when a new sms on my local computer I want to be published in my drupal page.

This is an example of a script that warns of a new sms

    #!/bin/sh
INBOX=/path/to/smsd/inbox
PROGRAM=/bin/cat
for ID in "$@" ; do
    $PROGRAM < $INBOX/$ID
done

Could you do something similar to send this SMS to my remote drupal page?

Answer 1

If you need to receive the sms on your local computer, and wish to create a new node on your production server using ssh rather than web APIs, then I would recommend that you do this with a custom Drush command that you write.

Start off by installing the drushify command on your local system (drush dl drushify).

Define the options and arguments for your command; for example, you might want to put the contents of the sms message in the command argument (name the argument variable $body), and specify any metadata in the options.

Next, fill in the implementation of your Drush command with your own code. This will look something like:

$node = new stdClass();
$node->type = 'my_sms_content_type'; // presumes you already made one of these with cck
node_object_prepare($node);
$node->body[$node->language][] = array('value' => $body, 'format' => 1);
$node->status = TRUE;
node_save($node);

Test the command locally with drush @mysite.dev sms-add "Test sms"

When satisfied, copy the Drush command to $HOME/.drush on the remote machine (where $HOME is the home folder of the remote user you define in your Drush alias), put a ssh public key in the appropriate .ssh directory, and run the command remotely with drush @mysite.live sms-add "Test sms". Be sure to run drush cc drush when adding new Drush commands.

Your script then becomes:

for ID in "$@" ; do
    drush @mysite.live sms-add "$(cat $INBOX/$ID)"
done

You might be able to replace the custom Drush command with Drush Entity. Give it a try.

Answer 2

Do you already know this module : https://drupal.org/project/gammu
It seems to fit your needs :

This module support Gammu database using same or separate Drupal database, even located on different server.

And it's provide with example.

Hoping that help.

Answer 3

See also: Code Server - https://www.drupal.org/project/codeserver

Code Server provides a framework for calling PHP functions on a Drupal site from code running on a different Drupal site.