Timeline for what does {node} node mean
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:36 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:33 | vote | accept | Joe Lloyd | ||
| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:33 | comment | added | Joe Lloyd | Awesome Aaron, yeah this makes things much much clearer. thanks for the help. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:31 | comment | added | Aaron | Yes -- I'd recommend exploring the database structure. It might be easiest with a GUI but you can also do it with SHOW and DESCRIBE queries. The Drupal database structure is fairly complex. Since nodes are just one type of entity, most tables that need to relate data to entities will have both an "entity_type" and "entity_id" field which, taken in tandem, allows their data to relate to any type of entity in the system. In those cases the data that relates to a node would have "entity_type" as "node" and "entity_id" as the nid of the node. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:26 | comment | added | Joe Lloyd | ok, Thanks Aaron you've made this much clearer. just one last question, how would I know what records are held in node, is it the nid field on the other tables? | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:24 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | Aaron | @JoeLloyd The node table has one record for every node on your site. It does not necessarily (indeed almost certainly does not) contain all field data and there are almost certainly other types of entities on your site such as taxonomy terms that are in other tables. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:20 | comment | added | Joe Lloyd |
Oh I see, so does that mean the node table has a reference to all of my content? because I just got a count back and its got 700000+ items in it
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:20 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:15 | history | answered | Aaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |