[support] Cron and clearing caches to update field data..

[Earnie Boyd]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Wipe_Out <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 2 October 2012 17:59, Michael Prasuhn <mike at mikeyp.net> wrote:
>>
>> How are you updating the field?
>> __________________
>> Michael Prasuhn
>> http://mikeyp.net
>>
>
> Directly in the database..
>
> I know its bad and it means none of the Drupal hooks run but its the only
> way we could do this one particular update easily and in testing other than
> it not displaying immediately it doesn't seem to have any adverse effects..

By directly do you mean using SQL or node_load/node_save?  You should
never use SQL to directly update the node.  You may programmatically
update it using node_load, modify object parameter then follow with
node_save.  This allows all the other node hooks to operate properly.

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