[development] Set the CCK field value the the node is created

[David Hautbois]

Finaly, I decided to use the computed field.

Thanks All !

David

Chris Johnson wrote:
> I've struggled with doing this, too.  I updated some of the CCK
> developer documentation on drupal.org to Drupal 6 as I went along
> figuring things out, but obviously only hit minor bits and pieces.
>
> You can look at the source for the moodle module
> (http://drupal.org/project/moodle) in the moodle.cckfield.inc file for
> the development code I was last working on to do this a few months
> ago.  It is a very hacked up copy of the computed field code, if I
> remember correctly.
>
> Please, please! -- if anyone figures out any pieces of how CCK works
> in Drupal 6 -- add documentation below the top-level page at
> http://drupal.org/node/101742 .
>
> The only 2 people who know how it really works are the  maintainers,
> and they're busy working on Drupal 7.
>
> ..chris
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM, David Hautbois<david.hautbois at free.fr> wrote:
>   
>> I've done this using the CCK Computed Field.
>>
>> But I would like to learn more about CCK fields development.
>> And my company give some time to do this...
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> David
>>
>> Brian Vuyk wrote:
>>     
>>> Is it something that could be done using a CCK Computed Field? It allows
>>> the field to be populated using PHP, and had the contents of the other
>>> fields available to it.
>>>
>>> Might be a little simpler than doing something in a module. Unless, of
>>> course, you don't want it's function accessible from the frontend.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>> On 06/22/2009 12:44 PM, David Hautbois wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi
>>>> I'm developping a custom CCK field for Drupal 6.
>>>> I'm don't want the user set the value himself. So, this field has no
>>>> widget.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for how to set the value when the node is saved. (the value
>>>> is set when the node is created et not updated)
>>>> In hook_field, I tried to use 'presave' ou 'validate' for $op, but I've
>>>> some problems to work with it :
>>>> - 'presave' seems to be called when the node is displayed...
>>>> - when the node is created, the field has no value ($items[0]['value']
>>>> does not exists)
>>>> - ...
>>>>
>>>> I 've look in some others CCK fields, but no one work like this.
>>>>
>>>> I copied the text_field CCK field, renamed all 'text_field' references,
>>>> simplified it and removed the widget.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help me or point me to a good web page ? (not the CCK dev
>>>> documentation !, I read it many times!)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>         
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