This problem comes up a lot in my Drupal module development: How do I generate the html for an individual CCK field? After much examination of the CCK, Views, and Node modules, I came up with this code snippet:
<?php
// load the node object
$node = node_load(MYNODEID);
// at this point the node object contains preprocessed data. build the content
$node = node_build_content($node);
// loop through content
foreach ($node->content as $k => $v) {
// specify a delimiter
$delimiter = "\n";
// ensure field items exist
if (is_array($v['field']['items'])) {
// create a container for the items html
$content = array();
// loop through items
foreach($v['field']['items'] as $i) {
// theme item
$content[] = theme($i['#theme'], $i);
}
// roll up items html using delimiter
$content = implode($delimiter, $content);
} else {
// NOTE: drupal_render includes divs, field labels, etc, which you may not want
$content = drupal_render($k);
}
// NOTE: at this point, the data will be stored in $content, and you can now do whatever you want with it.
// The date module gave me some headaches with this code snippet, BTW
}
?>
