By odedbobi on

i am facing inconsistency behavior when working with the pre process functions:
i have 2 content types:
1. the drupal pre define Page content type.
2. a simple content-type called foo, that uses the pre define title and body fields. and some other cck fields.
i have written a pre process function called: MYTHEMENAME_preprocess_node(&$vars, $hook) i surf 2 times and print_r the $vars array:

- when surfing to the Page content type the $vars['title'] and $vars['body'] fields are there with the correct value. (although when prompting the page to the front page the $vars['content'] holds the body field and not the $vars['body'] field as when surfing directly to the Page content type - but thats a different issue)
- when surfing to the foo content type the $vars['title'] is there, the cck fields are there but the $vars['body'] and $vars['content'] fields are always null, when one of them should have content.

is this some king of a bug ? what am i doing wrong ? can anyone direct me to the drupal code position where i can debug and see why this behavior occurs ?

i am using drupal 6. any help will be appreciated.

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jerseycheese’s picture

jerseycheese
Location Virginia Beach, VA
commented

First off, you might want to download and install the Devel module. Then you'll be able to use dpm($whatever) to give you a much cleaner view of what's in a variable. print_r() is kinda messy.

Then, put dpm($vars) in your preprocess function and get a complete view of what's available to you.

Anyways, I believe what you want to use is $vars['node']->content['body']['#value'] for the body and $vars['node']->title for the title.

If you're still having issues with the variables, you can set those variables yourself in the preprocess function:

$vars['title'] = $vars['node']->title;
$vars['body'] = $vars['node']->content['body']['#value'];
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odedbobi commented

thanks man, your work around solved my problem.