Drupal 6.x

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Timur Gilfanov uses the following code in a computed field to find the current age of someone given their birthdate:

D'Arcy Norman has a Computed Field example in which he calculates the average speed of a bike trip, rather than filling it in manually:

Computed Field settings (leaving other fields at their defaults):

Note: the Computed Field Module can be used instead of this custom code (in Drupal 5.x and 6.x)

Imagine you have two existing number fields, called field_product_price and field_postage_price. You want to create a computed field field_total_cost which adds these two fields. Create a new computed field with the name 'Total Cost', and in your computed field's configuration set the following:

These examples demonstrate how to output the node ID (nid) for the current page in the form of a link to itself.

This is a collection of sample code snippets that can be used in CCK fields enabled by the Computed Field module.

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