Support new fields in Drupal core

Now that there's some CCK stuff in core, I'm willing to put more weight into the validity of this request, but it'll have to wait till Drupal 6 is stable. Patches always welcome in the meantime.

D6 is stable now.

I'd like to have such a feature, but have no current need for it myself, so someone else will probably have to write the patch.

It would be nice, even if support will only be for single CCK text fields.
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FYI, this will have to happen for Drupal 7 because the title and body fields are going away. Officially postponing until then.

Rather than what you ask? I don't know. I guess I was already typing about my next thought...

Would love this feature too!

This is active again now that drupal 7 is out.

Has anyone run this through Coder yet to help produce a basic patch for the upgrade?

Setting this back to the original cause. For the d7 port, head here: #1243654: Port Similar entries module to Drupal 7

Indeed, CCK field support is absolutely planned for the upgrade and is being worked on now. I'm working on the port and should see some good progress soon, but the plan for a viable release candidate is to have Views integration and CCK support, so whenever that happens we will see a release. Patches are welcomed!

CCK/field support is now part of both 6.x-2.0 and 7.x-2.0 modules. This is implemented within the new Views integration. Similar entries automatically indexes any new fields when cron is run (if there are new fields) and fields can be included in the view's query via the setting in the Similar entries nid argument. This feature will not be back ported to 6.x-1.x as that version has a development freeze and only major bug for security fixes will be applied.

One note: there remains an issue with the query built in views when the argument option to include fields is enabled. It is not critical, but it is undesired behavior that ultimately reduces the accuracy of results and makes sorting more difficult. See #1246044: Argument query goes into boolean mode when including CCK fields for more information on that or to provide some much needed input.

Wow man! You're on fire!! ;)

I have a lot of time on my hands between semesters, so just getting as much done as possible before school starts again next week.. Seems to work surprisingly well too. : ) Still generates the exact same queries in views as were generating in the original theme function, so I'd say that was a success.

Yep, nailed it!!