Hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.

I am using Node Relativity, and I have added a video to the parent node and want it to appear on all child nodes as well.

I've tried doing this with a node_load->nid, but I cant figure out how to get the [view] for the field. I'm thinking I have to run this through a theme function?

$nid = $parent_node;
$parent = node_load($nid);
if ($parent->field_video[0]) {
do something here...
}

Just for a test I ran it through theme_video_cck_video_embed using the code suggested in the video_cck.module and that works perfectly, printing everything in a nice form text area.

I take it need to use theme('video_cck_video_video', $field, $item, $formatter, $node); but I cant figure out how that is working.

Any pointers much appreciated.

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alex ua’s picture

alex ua commented
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The print command you're looking for should be something like:
print $parent->field_video[0]['view']

Does that not work?

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Unfortunately it does not - when you do the node_load, [view] is not available.

aaron’s picture

aaron commented

correct. you would need to use node_view($parent) after loading it before you have access to the ->field_video array

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Hey, thanks so much for that aaron, works a charm, I had been tinkering with the node_view but no joy until now, thanks again, much appreciated both of you...

Heres the solution to print emfield video_cck video parent video in the child nodes (I use this in my child node node-xxx.tpl.php file)

$nid = $parent_node;
$parent = node_load($nid);
node_view($parent);
if ($parent->field_video[0]['view']) {
print $parent->field_video[0]['view'];
}
aaron’s picture

aaron commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

that will work fine, but a more technically "correct" solution would be something like the following:

$nid = $parent_node;
$parent = node_load($nid);
node_view($parent);
if ($parent->field_video[0]['value']) {
  print $parent->field_video[0]['view'];
}

there might be some circumstances that $parent->field_video[0]['view'] would not be empty, even if there were no video. although that would only be if you were overriding the theme or using a custom provider, so what you have would work for nearly every circumstance. for instance, someone might want to override the theme to have a thumbnail saying 'no video available' when the value is empty, but not want that on teasers. this solution would be better for that type of implementation.

aaron

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aaron commented

also, be careful with node_loads. in most circumstances, there's almost always a way to do what you want with a list view, which will only load the necessary fields. node_load with node_view is query intensive, which can cause performance issues for high load sites.

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Yes, thats a good point you make there, since I did not need to worry about it I used 'view', but for others it may be important, thanks for pointing that out.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.