Content Construction Kit (CCK)
The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser.
Drupal 7 and Fields in Core
Most of CCK has moved to core in the Drupal 7 version. The D7 version of the contrib CCK package currently contains :
- nodereference and userreference (mostly working),
- D6 -> D7 data migration code (partially working),
- some miscellaneous helpers to do things that core will not do, like maintain the php code snippets some fields may have been using to define allowed values (partially working).
The following features will most likely be handled by separate, dedicated projects :
- content_permissions : Field permissions module. See this issue for progress on the D7 version.
Yet to be defined, nothing ported yet :
- fieldgroup: see #824812: Future of fieldgroup - call for volunteers
- content_copy
Everything else is in Drupal 7 core.
CCK Resources
CCK is a very powerful system with many different contributed modules to extend its functionality. Install the Advanced Help module for additional help, and use the Views module to display CCK information in a variety of ways.
Here are a few other comprehensive documentation and tutorial resources to help get you started:
- Text: The CCK Handbook on Drupal.org
- Text: CCK Module basics tutorial
- Video: Adding Fields With CCK video
- Video: CCK & Views Tutorial (for Drupal 5)
- DVD: Learning CCK in-depth training by Lullabot
- Book: Using Drupal O'Reilly covers CCK with lots of examples
- Video: Karen Stevenson's CCK Presentation at the Do It With Drupal Seminar (paid access)
