[support] changing field tables

[Shai Gluskin]

Marty,

Views module. It's a dynamic query builder. It is very, very smart.

http://drupal.org/project/views

As a coder you might find yourself working hard to get out of the way of
Drupal and its ecosystem of modules.

Take out your coder chops on writing a new module for contrib, not on
writing custom code for a client project.

best,

Shai

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Marty Landman
<mlandman at face2interface.com>wrote:

> I just ran into a Drupal gotcha. Here's the situation. I coded db
> queries for nodes and blocks using the hard-coded field file_path
> which is part of the content-type story-image. My queries referenced
> content_type_story_image.field_story_file_path_value and it was working
> fine.
>
> However today I added a second content type, fairy-tale-image which
> as one of its fields uses the existing field file_path. This caused
> the file_path field to move into its own table,
> content_field_file_path. Now I've changed the queries but am thinking
> there must be a more intelligent way I could've done these queries,
> like going through Drupal's api and not getting caught on this snag.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to learn how to do that?
>
> Marty
>
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