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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I discovered what it was although I don't
understand why!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>the custom module with the form_alter. At some
point between june 3 and june 18, its weight was altered from 0 to -99. Once I
put it back to 0, everything came back to normal, the cck fields appeared again
on the node create form and the custom module did its work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm not too clear on module weights so I'm not sure
why that would have had such a dramatic effect.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>anyway, 5 hours, yes FIVE, of deleting the db,
reinstalling old backups and poring over lines of code to see differences has
come to an end by changing one integer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>you gotta love db-driven websites!!
:-)</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=neil@esl-lounge.com href="mailto:neil@esl-lounge.com">Neil
Coghlan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=support@drupal.org
href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 19, 2010 1:13
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [support] Disappearing CCK
fields</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have a content type with three CCK fields:
description, address and type. I have made a custom module with form_alter
changing certain aspects of these fields on the node create form...wrapping
them in a css class, altering the description, weight, etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I noticed today that the custom module was not
only not having an effect but that the CCK fields themselves had disappeared
from the node create form. Odd! I disabled the custom module and back they
came. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>then I rolled the database back about 10 days,
reinstalled the custom module and everything was working fine. So now I am
trying to work out what is different between the june 3rd sql dump and the
june 18th sql dump and it's driving me crazy. I don't think the custom module
is the problem as it's just a 10 line form_alter function that was working
perfectly until some point between june 3rd and 18th.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The other thing is in that custom module, today I
put the following to find out what fields/variables were in the
form:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> print $form_id;<BR>
$form['form_array'] = array(<BR> '#value' =>
'<pre>'. print_r($form, 1) .'</pre>',<BR>
'#weight' => '99',<BR> );</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>with the june 3rd sql dump, I'm getting all the
CCK fields printed below, showing me all the arrays and variables I can access
and alter. In the june 18th sql dump, none of that is coming up at all. It's
as if they don't exist. When I go to Content Types, everything is normal, the
fields are there, etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Has anyone heard of something like this before?
Any clues where I could start looking?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Neil</FONT></DIV>
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