How can I attach a newly added paragraph to existing records? [closed]

Question

While editing a form, I needed to delete some fields and add a new paragraph. The issue here is, the newly added paragraph is not initialized in the edit form and that makes sense because the old data don't have that field so I have to initialize it manually by clicking on "Add Paragraph", then Save otherwise I won't be able to access it programmatically, but I have hundreds of users and I can't do that.

How can I add a paragraph to existing records?

I'm unable to use Drush on this server.

Answer 1

You add newly created paragraphs (without saving them) to the node field:

$node->field_paragraph[] = Paragraph::create([
  'type' => 'paragraph_type',
  'field_foo' => 'bar',
]);

and save them later together with the node:

$node->save();