Drupal and Php - Create content from code part 1 of 2

// and at least an element /[root]/title.

  echo "a";

  include 'staff2011a.php';
  $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);

  define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());
  require_once DRUPAL_ROOT.'/includes/bootstrap.inc';
    drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
      // Import node functions.
        module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.pages');
          echo "1";
global $user; //get current logged in user
  echo "2";

 /* For each node, we echo a separate . */


      foreach ($xml->staff as $arecord) {
        echo $arecord->surname, ' played by ', $arecord->surname, PHP_EOL, "
";
        $new_node = new stdClass();
        $new_node->type = 'staff';
        $new_node->uid = $user->uid; //you can specify some other userID here if you want
        $new_node->name = $user->name;
        $new_node->title = $arecord->first_name.' '.$arecord->surname;
        $new_node->body = '';
       $new_node->status = 1; // published
        $new_node->field_extension[0]['value'] = $arecord->extension_number;
       $new_node->field_mobile[0]['value'] = $arecord->mobile;
        $new_node->field_phone[0]['value'] = $arecord->phone_number;
        $new_node->field_email[0]['value'] = $arecord->email;
        $new_node->field_position[0]['value'] = $arecord->position;
        $new_node->field_fax[0]['value'] = $arecord->fax_number;

        node_save($new_node);
        echo "3";
     } // end foreach



  echo "b";


     echo "4";
?>