[development] development Digest, Vol 97, Issue 56

[Greenman]

node_load is still your friend. No real change there, you don't have to
worry about the entity layer.

field_get_items will get you the values of the body field in the correct
language.

On 24 January 2011 14:16, Blaine Lang <Blaine.Lang at nextide.ca> wrote:

> > You should probably not be using the DB API to load the field value.
> > Since (in theory) we are able to have our actual field data stored in
> > various back-ends, you should only really load the data via node or
> entity
> > loading functions.
>
> > The node table itself is still reliably in Sql though, so you can
> select
> > which node to display via the DB API.
>
> > Peter
>
> I agree peter and that's why I was exploring the entityController class
> but did not see a good example of how I would do what I need - return
> the body field for the node of type 'frontpage_quote'.
>
> I originally needed a random result and the site is only going to have
> 10 at most so performance is not an issue as this is a light weight
> marketing site, but I appreciate the DB questioning/ideas on the random
> issue.
>
> blaine
>
>
>
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