Adding a Node's specific CCK field into a Sidebar Block

By mherchel on 10 Sep 2010 at 18:58 UTC

Hi,

I have a CCK node type that has two fields, Left-Column and Right-Column. Both are text fields. I'm trying to create a block that will pull the data from one of the fields "Left-Column" into the block.

I've tried inserting the following into the block. I do have PHP code as the as the input format.

<?php
print $node->field_right_column[0]['safe'];
?>

and nothing will show up on the node's page.

I've also tried the following which pulls the node ID from the URL, but this doesn't work either.

<?php
$nid = print arg(1);
$node = node_load($nid, NULL, TRUE);
print $node->field_right_column[0]['safe'];
?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Comments

You should use a view to

krysgeek commented 10 September 2010 at 20:54

You should use a view to display the field.

Just hide it from display in the content type

Add a node type view.
In the view: Add the field that you want to display. Select the style (unformatted, html list, etc). Add an argument of Nid and under default argument use Node Id from URL. Add a block display and save.

Then just put the block in the correct region.