Question

I have a custom content type which has a field called “location” which is a long select list (100 or so items). I want to get an array of all locations which have a piece of content associated with them. The numeric value of this field is stored in content_type_[my_content_type], but I can’t find anywhere in the database where the name of the values are stored. I hope that’s not too confusing – just to be clear, I want to do something like this:

SELECT DISTINCT(field_location_value) FROM content_type_[my_content_type]

and then

SELECT field_location_name_or_something FROM where_on_earth_are_the_names_stored

and then do something with the two arrays to find the names I want.

Can anyone help?

Thanks a lot. Drupal 6, by the way.

Answer 1

If you mean select list field of CCK:
Get all location associated with current node (piece of content?):

$node = node_load('YOUR content ID');
print_r($node->field_location); // $node->field_location - this will array of values.

Get all values of that field (defined in “Allowed values”):

  $content_field = content_fields('field_location');
  $allowed_values = content_allowed_values($content_field); // array of values