I’m new to Drupal. A very experienced programmer, but new to Drupal. I have worked my way through Beginning Drupal 7 by Todd Tomlinson and Pro Drupal 7 Development by Todd Tomlinson and John K VanDyk. I’ve watched some videos and online code examples.
Here’s where I am in my project. The site is set up, contributed modules installed, base theme installed. I’m beginning to add 13 custom content types. I want them to be added from modules, 1 for each type since there will be a cafeteria plan. There’s much more, but I’m stuck here.
In the books there was a example of adding one field to a new content type. All created in a module. The exercise worked great. However, when I try it with one of my modules that has multiple fields, things get screwed up.
- The fields are added to the database, but they do not appear on the form.
- During uninstall, the field tables are not removed from the database.
- I don’t know how to set all of the properties of the data field or widget that I can when I am creating a custom content type using the administrative pages.
- I want the fields to be contained in fieldsets upon installation. I can do this if I am creating a form from scratch with code, but how do I do this in a custom content type module.install script?
I’ve screwed around with this so much now that I’m not sure when what stopped working.
Here are some code snippets I’ve tried.
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function _job_post_installed_fields() {
$t = get_t();
return array(
'job_post_company' => array(
'field_name' => 'job_post_company',
'label' => $t('Company posting the job listing'),
'type' => 'text',
),
'job_post_color' => array(
'field_name' => 'job_post_color',
'label' => $t('Job post color'),
'type' => 'text',
),
);
}
/**
* return a structured array defining the field instances associated with this content type
*/
function _job_post_installed_instances() {
$t = get_t();
return array(
'job_post_company' => array(
'field_name' => 'job_post_company',
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $t('Company posting the job listing'),
'widget' => array(
'type' => 'text_textfield',
),
'display' => array(
'example_node_list' => array(
'label' => $t('Company posting the job listing'),
'type' => 'text',
),
),
),
'job_post_color' => array(
'field_name' => 'job_post_color',
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $t('Job post color'),
'widget' => array(
'type' => 'text_textfield',
),
'display' => array(
'example_node_list' => array(
'label' => $t('Job post color'),
'type' => 'text',
),
),
),
);
}
----
And
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function _hawk_topic_installed_fields() {
$t = get_t();
return array(
'hawk_topic_type' => array(
'field_name' => 'hawk_topic_type',
'label' => $t('hawk Topic Type'),
'type' => 'text',
'settings' => array(
'max_length' => 50,
),
),
'hawk_topic_color' => array(
'field_name' => 'hawk_topic_color',
'label' => $t('hawk Topic Color'),
'type' => 'text',
'settings' => array(
'max_length' => 20,
),
),
);
}
/**
* return a structured array defining the field instances associated with this content type
*/
function _hawk_topic_installed_instances() {
$t = get_t();
return array(
'hawk_topic_type' => array(
'field_name' => 'hawk_topic_type',
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $t('Type of topic'),
'widget' => array(
'type' => 'text_textfield',
'settings' => array('size' => 60),
),
'display' => array(
'example_node_list' => array(
'label' => $t('Type of topic'),
'type' => 'text',
),
),
),
'hawk_topic_color' => array(
'field_name' => 'hawk_topic_color',
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $t('Color of topic'),
'widget' => array(
'type' => 'text_textfield',
'settings' => array('size' => 20),
),
'display' => array(
'example_node_list' => array(
'label' => $t('Color of topic'),
'type' => 'text',
),
),
),
);
}
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The uninstall script seems to be right out of the book (pun intended).
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function hawk_topic_uninstall() {
// gather all the example content that might have been created while this
// module was enabled
$sql = 'SELECT nid FROM {node} n WHERE n.type = :type';
$result = db_query($sql, array(':type' => 'hawk_topic'));
$nids = array ();
foreach ($result as $row) {
$nids[] = $row->nid;
}
// delete all the nodes at once
node_delete_multiple($nids);
// loop over each of the fields defined by this moduel and delete
// all instance of the field, their data, and the field itself.
foreach (array_keys(_hawk_topic_installed_fields()) as $field) {
field_delete_field($field);
}
// loop over any remaining file instances attached to the hawk_topic
// content type (such as body field) and delete them individually
$instances = field_info_instances('node', 'hawk_topic'); foreach ($instances as $instance_name => $instance) { field_delete_instance($instance);
}
// delete our content type
node_type_delete('hawk_topic');
// purge all field information
field_purge_batch(1000);
}
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Any ideas? Probably a beginners mistake?
Thanks in advance,
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Alex Adams
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A2 Technology Partners, Inc.
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