Field API

Field get items

Submitted by guybrush on

Here's a useful one you may not know about: field_get_items().  Basically, if you're trying to get field values off an entity, it can be fiddly - dealing with language, indices, etc.  This function makes it much simpler. Just give it the Entity Type (e.g. 'node'), the entity itself and the field name (e.g. 'body'), and it will return the value that you are looking for.

How to query a field on an entity in Drupal 7

Submitted by guybrush on

With Drupal 7's support for Field API, even the die-hard opponents of old-style CCK will find themselves using fields, and (hopefully) entities.  But...how do you run a query efficiently on a field which could have multiple values?

The answer lies in EntityFieldQuery.  Here are some examples of how it can be used:

$query = new EntityFieldQuery();

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