Questions about the entity API, the API that allows to create entities in Drupal 7 and forward.
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How to clone a entity with its attached fields?
I am trying to create a entity with few bundles. I have used EntityDefaultUIController as admin UI callback. This provides me with few default functions such as clone, import and export. The problem ...
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Can't add content?
I have a content type called Video with a node title and a video field where i put the url of the youtube video i want ( Video Embed Field module ) .
Everything goes fine until i installed some ...
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Session breaks Entity API
Whenever I try to use $_SESSION or variable_set it breaks the Entity API. It says
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function entity_get_info() in
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How to change content type field values with the entity system — getting a “doesn't support writing” error
I've got a D7 content type with a few fields; nothing particularly special. I want to be able to programattically change the values of those fields from time to time, and so wrote a function like so:
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How to set value of file field with entity_metadata_wrapper
How do you set the value of a file field when using the entity_metadata_wrapper?
I've tried doing this in code:
$file = new stdClass();
$file->uid = 1;
$file->uri = $file_path;
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Attach Entity “comment” to Entity “file”
Files (images) are uploaded within a content type with plup and plupload. These images are then displayed through a view.
I would like to have a "commenting" functionality for each uploaded image. I ...
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How do you clear a field value with entity_metadata_wrapper()?
Suppose I have an entity with a field field_foo on it and I want to clear that field's value.
What should I pass to $wrapper->set()?
I have tried NULL and array() and both produce an error ...
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How can I get bundle of an entity from type and id?
I need to identify bundle of an entity from its type and id.
For example, if the type is 'node' and id is 7, I may get 'page' as bundle.
Thanks
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creating a custom entity which stores multiple bundles as per user input?
I want to create an custom entity(Lets say payroll entity) which has the following fields
1. Basic salary
2. Earnings
3. Deductions
It is possible by Entities
But now I would like to add some new ...
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Is EntityFieldQuery really this inefficient?
I am an admitted newbie to the Entity API, but am trying to cure that. I'm working on a site that uses a number of content types with various fields attached to them; nothing fancy. So, when I want ...
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how to check non existent field added later using entityfieldquery? [duplicate]
I added a required field in a Job type node later. So existing nodes don't have that particular field value.
I want to include all such field values. But how can I do it?
Here is query sample:
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how to define entity preprocess function
My custom module defines a custom entity, which extends the EntityAPIController class. I managed to make it basically working, i.e. displaying fields etc via my custom tpl.php file. But I would like ...
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Using Entity API, if given an entity in a function scope, how do you get the entity type?
This is very similar to this question: How do I get entity_type and entity_id from any entity page?
But I don't know what that asker means by "Entity Page," and in my case, using debug_backtrace ...
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Should I create fielded content types (with 1000+ tables) OR create custom entities with properties instead of fields (way less tables)?
I have a case where I have a lot of entities that can be stored with Drupal as node (content types) and fields. I had to end up creating 105 content types, 20 taxonomies and in-numerous fields. And ...
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Cleanest way to write EntityCondition on field from widget
The widget is nodehierarchy_menu_links - it has a structure embedded in the node like:
[0]
-> [module]
-> [menu_name]
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-> [pnid]
It has more than one value as per the widget system. I ...
