[development] programatically adding a CCK field to a content type.

[nitin gupta]

One more thing, I haven't checked this out yet, but how do you delete the
field that's created or update it?
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Regards,
Nitin Kumar Gupta
http://publicmind.in/blog/


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:58 PM, nitin gupta <nitingupta.iitg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Can you please post the code to do such validations about other modules and
> field being exisiting already, so that I don have to re-invent the wheel.
> Thanks..
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nitin Kumar Gupta
> http://publicmind.in/blog/
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Emma Irwin <emma.irwin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This has worked for me as well, and I haven't had any issues.  Testing
>> with install/uninstall is important as is considering that that CCK field
>> name might already exist.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:51 AM, nitin gupta <nitingupta.iitg at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I wanted to add an imagefield to a content type, using the function
>>> content_field_instance_create(). I wrote this piece of code.
>>> $field['field_name'] = 'myfield';
>>> $field['type_name'] = 'story';
>>> $field['type'] = 'filefield';
>>> $field['widget_type'] = 'imagefield_widget';
>>> module_load_include('inc', 'content', 'includes/content.crud');
>>> content_field_instance_create($field);
>>>
>>> This works perfectly fine with me, and an imagefield gets added to the
>>> content type. are there any pitfalls in this i should take care of? or is
>>> there any better way to do such a thing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Nitin Kumar Gupta
>>> http://publicmind.in/blog/
>>>
>>
>>
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