There are two ways to create content types in Drupal. The first is using hook_node_info in your module. When using this method, this only creates a content type with a title and a body (providing you implement the hook_form() function.)
function blog_node_info() {
return array(
'blog' => array(
'name' => t('Blog entry'),
'module' => 'blog',
'description' => t('A blog entry is a single post to an online journal, or blog.'),
'has_title' => TRUE,
'has_body' => TRUE,
)
);
}
function blog_form($node, $form_state) {
return node_content_form($node, $form_state);
}The other way is to programmically recreate a content type by exporting the content type with the Content Copy module. For example, you're working on module that relies on content type that you created along with a number of CCK fields. The first step in this method is to enable the Content Copy module. Once the module is enabled head over to admin/content/types/export to select the content type you wish to export. The export will be an array so you can use it in a module.
$content['type'] = array (
'name' => 'Membership',
'type' => 'product',
'description' => 'This node displays the representation of a membership for sale on the website. ',
'title_label' => 'Name',
'body_label' => 'Description',
'min_word_count' => '0',
'help' => '',
'node_options' =>
array (
'status' => true,
'revision' => true,
'promote' => false,
'sticky' => false,
),
'old_type' => 'product',
'orig_type' => 'product',
'module' => 'uc_product',
'custom' => '0',
'modified' => '1',
'locked' => '1',
'reset' => 'Reset to defaults',
'uc_product_shippable' => 0,
'uc_image' => '',
'comment' => '0',
'comment_default_mode' => '4',
'comment_default_order' => '1',
'comment_default_per_page' => '50',
'comment_controls' => '3',
'comment_anonymous' => 0,
'comment_subject_field' => '1',
'comment_preview' => '1',
'comment_form_location' => '0',
);
$content['fields'] = array (
0 =>
array (
'label' => 'Image',
'field_name' => 'field_image',
'type' => 'filefield',
'widget_type' => 'imagefield_widget',
'change' => 'Change basic information',
'weight' => '31',
'file_extensions' => 'png gif jpg jpeg',
'progress_indicator' => 'bar',
'file_path' => '',
'max_filesize_per_file' => '',
'max_filesize_per_node' => '',
'max_resolution' => 0,
'min_resolution' => 0,
'custom_alt' => 0,
'alt' => '',
'custom_title' => 0,
'title_type' => 'textfield',
'title' => '',
'use_default_image' => 0,
'default_image_upload' => '',
'default_image' => NULL,
'description' => '',
'required' => 0,
'multiple' => '1',
'list_field' => '0',
'list_default' => 1,
'description_field' => '0',
'op' => 'Save field settings',
'module' => 'filefield',
'widget_module' => 'imagefield',
'columns' =>
array (
'fid' =>
array (
'type' => 'int',
'not null' => false,
'views' => true,
),
'list' =>
array (
'type' => 'int',
'size' => 'tiny',
'not null' => false,
'views' => true,
),
'data' =>
array (
'type' => 'text',
'serialize' => true,
'views' => true,
),
),
'display_settings' =>
array (
'label' =>
array (
'format' => 'above',
'exclude' => 0,
),
'teaser' =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
'full' =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
4 =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
'token' =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
),
),
);
$content['extra'] = array (
'title' => '-5',
'body_field' => '-4',
'revision_information' => '20',
'author' => '20',
'options' => '25',
'comment_settings' => '30',
'menu' => '0',
'path' => '30',
'shipping' => '0',
'base' => '-1',
'body' => '1',
);In a hook_install or hook_enable function, and after making sure the content type doesn't already exist, you would do the following:
module_load_include('inc', 'content', 'includes/content.crud');
$content['type'] = array (
'name' => 'Membership',
'type' => 'product',
'description' => 'This node displays the representation of a membership for sale on the website. ',
'title_label' => 'Name',
'body_label' => 'Description',
'min_word_count' => '0',
'help' => '',
'node_options' =>
array (
'status' => true,
'revision' => true,
'promote' => false,
'sticky' => false,
),
'old_type' => 'product',
'orig_type' => 'product',
'module' => 'uc_product',
'custom' => '0',
'modified' => '1',
'locked' => '1',
'reset' => 'Reset to defaults',
'uc_product_shippable' => 0,
'uc_image' => '',
'comment' => '0',
'comment_default_mode' => '4',
'comment_default_order' => '1',
'comment_default_per_page' => '50',
'comment_controls' => '3',
'comment_anonymous' => 0,
'comment_subject_field' => '1',
'comment_preview' => '1',
'comment_form_location' => '0',
);
$content['fields'] = array (
0 =>
array (
'label' => 'Image',
'field_name' => 'field_image',
'type' => 'filefield',
'widget_type' => 'imagefield_widget',
'change' => 'Change basic information',
'weight' => '31',
'file_extensions' => 'png gif jpg jpeg',
'progress_indicator' => 'bar',
'file_path' => '',
'max_filesize_per_file' => '',
'max_filesize_per_node' => '',
'max_resolution' => 0,
'min_resolution' => 0,
'custom_alt' => 0,
'alt' => '',
'custom_title' => 0,
'title_type' => 'textfield',
'title' => '',
'use_default_image' => 0,
'default_image_upload' => '',
'default_image' => NULL,
'description' => '',
'required' => 0,
'multiple' => '1',
'list_field' => '0',
'list_default' => 1,
'description_field' => '0',
'op' => 'Save field settings',
'module' => 'filefield',
'widget_module' => 'imagefield',
'columns' =>
array (
'fid' =>
array (
'type' => 'int',
'not null' => false,
'views' => true,
),
'list' =>
array (
'type' => 'int',
'size' => 'tiny',
'not null' => false,
'views' => true,
),
'data' =>
array (
'type' => 'text',
'serialize' => true,
'views' => true,
),
),
'display_settings' =>
array (
'label' =>
array (
'format' => 'above',
'exclude' => 0,
),
'teaser' =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
'full' =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
4 =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
'token' =>
array (
'format' => 'image_plain',
'exclude' => 0,
),
),
),
);
$content['extra'] = array (
'title' => '-5',
'body_field' => '-4',
'revision_information' => '20',
'author' => '20',
'options' => '25',
'comment_settings' => '30',
'menu' => '0',
'path' => '30',
'shipping' => '0',
'base' => '-1',
'body' => '1',
);
$form_state = array();
$form = content_copy_import_form($form_state, $content['type']['type']);
$form_state['values']['type_name'] = $type_name ? $type_name : '';
$form_state['values']['macro'] = '$content = '. var_export($content, 1) .';';
$form_state['values']['op'] = t('Import');
content_copy_import_form_submit($form, $form_state);