[development] D6 Programmatic creation of a custom content type with fields

[jeff at ayendesigns.com]

I find what seems to be two different approaches for creating fields for 
a custom content type via a module. One is from drewish, where the field 
is first added via cck manually, then dumped with 
var_export(content_fields()) and then added to the content type in the 
install via content_field_instance_create(). The other is in rfay's 
Example module, where Randy creates a table for the module in the 
install and inserts fields into it that are what cck would insert.

I'm wondering if the latter removes the need for me to do all the node 
processing from my module. Also, my content type has one field (other 
than title and body) which is an image filefield with unlimited 
instances, and I'm thinking that that same method would have the field 
being handled by filefield and that the method in Example would require 
that I manage the _fid, _list and _data db content, etc., so if there's 
a reason why this would be a better way to do it, or why the first 
method wouldn't be, I'm missing it.

Jeff
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