This code has been tested with MOSS 2007 RTM (it was originally written and tested with MOSS 2007 B2TR). Thanks Aaron!
When I was adding unit tests to my WCM Custom Commands for STSADM.EXE suite, I needed to have some pages were automatically added to a Publishing site to test the PublishAllItems custom command. I figured this may be something other developers need to do so I figured I'd throw this sample code in a post for my readers.
To add pages to a Publishing site you first need to get an instance of a PublishingWeb object. Then, you need to get a content type (this wasn't so obvious because the SPContentTypeID object isn't documented in the WSS v3 SDK... as of the latest available SDK at least [Beta 2 Tech Refresh]), a page layout, and finally create the page.
Here's the sample code... have at it! It only fills the root site in the site collection with pages, but it should be pretty clear to any SharePoint developer how to add pages to subsites as well. It assumes the site collection was created using the Publishing Portal site template (from MOSS 2007 B2TR) because it expects both the Article Page content type and ArticleLeft.aspx page layout exist.
1: public void FillPublishingWebWithPages (string publishingSiteCollection, int pagesToCreate) {
2: SPSite siteCollection = null;
3: SPWeb site = null;
4: PublishingSite publishingSite = null;
5: PublishingWeb publishingWeb = null;
6:
7: try {
8: // get the PublishingWeb
9: siteCollection = new SPSite(publishingSiteCollection);
10: site = siteCollection.RootWeb();
11: publishingSite = new PublishingSite(siteCollection);
12: publishingWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(site);
13:
14: // Article Page content type
15: SPContentTypeId articleContentTypeID = new SPContentTypeId("0x010100C568DB52D9D0A1
4D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF3900242457EFB8B24247815D688C526CD44D");
16:
17: // get the ArticleLeft.aspx Page Layout
18: PageLayout[] layouts = publishingWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts(articleContentTypeID);
19: PageLayout articlePageLayout = layouts[1];
20:
21: // create a temp name...
22: string pageName = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd-HHmmss");
23:
24: // create the specified number of pages
25: for (int i = 0; i < pagesToCreate; i++) {
26: PublishingPage newPage = publishingWeb.GetPublishingPages().Add(
string.Format("{0}_Gend_Page_{1}.aspx", pageName, i), articlePageLayout);
27: newPage.Update();
28: }
29: } catch (Exception ex) {
30: throw new Exception(ex);
31: } finally {
32: // properly dispose of the resources
33: site.Dispose();
34: siteCollection.RootWeb.Dispose();
35: siteCollection.Dispose();
36: }
37: }