Excluding fields from the $content array using theme_content_exclude function

Any luck on this? I'm trying to use it as well and cannot get it to work

Well, figured it out. It was much simpler than I thought, but there seemed to be some misleading help on the web. For anyone looking to exclude fields from $content, just copy the theme_content_exclude function from content.module to your template.php file, change 'theme' to your theme, add adjust the code to suit your needs. It should look something like:

function THEME_content_exclude($content, $object, $context) {	
  // The field may be missing info for $contexts added by modules
  // enabled after the field was last edited.
  if (empty($object['display_settings'])
    || empty($object['display_settings'][$context])
    || !is_array($object['display_settings'][$context])
    || empty($object['display_settings'][$context]['exclude'])) {
    return FALSE;
  }
  else {
    return TRUE;
  }
}

I still have one question, though. Is there any way to find out which node the current field is a part of? I would like to load the node, find out the node creator, etc

Thanks!

@phreestilr or anyone else. An example would be very helpful.

Re: "Is there any way to find out which node the current field is a part of?"

Not within this context where this function is executed.

You need to explore alternative approaches, for example, you can inject your own #pre_render callback to the node content structure (look at content_nodeapi() for an example), and here you'll find all the data related to the node, and you can exclude whatever you may need.