[development] Accessing CCK field data (single, multiple, or shared) from another module

[Rob Barreca]

>
> Is there a function for getting the data that you can just give a node
> type and a field name and it handles the rest? 
This is something I've just run into as well. I have a hardcoded to 
query the DB for the multiple field table, but have a TODO in there to 
find the right API call.

Rob Roy Barreca
Founder and COO
Electronic Insight Corporation
http://www.electronicinsight.com
rob at electronicinsight.com



Benjamin Melançon wrote:
> Gracious developers, CCK people especially...
>
> I wrote an access control module that works with the node relativity
> module to cascade permissions to all nodes lower in a hierarchy.  I
> hard-coded a query for a userreference field on a custom content type
> as one way to give a user access to a node (and its descendants).
>
> In generalizing this, the current stumbling block is the way CCK
> stores single instances in the content data table and shared instances
> of a field in a separate table.
>
> Is there a function for getting the data that you can just give a node
> type and a field name and it handles the rest?
>
> Or is there a place to check what the case is for a particular field?
> (Even a "column_exists()" function would do it for me, but haven't
> found one in PHP...)
>
> It's being developed in Drupal 5 and fixing this (as well as saving
> explicitly permitted users when creating a new node) is all that's
> needed for posting the project for general use.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> ben
>
> Agaric Design Collective
> Open Source Web Development
> http://AgaricDesign.com/
>
> People Who Give a Damn
> building the infrastructure of a network for everyone
> http://pwgd.org/