I have a content type whose human readable name is Post your blog. How can I get the content type machine name by the human readable name?
Is there a function in Drupal 7, or do I have to query the node_type table to get what I want?
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1There is no function I know of. The point of machine names is to use them and only convert to human ones on read. Human readable names are not unique, so you will have to take care about that.– MołotCommented Jun 5, 2013 at 16:10
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You can easily build a query to achieve this. However, as Molot mentioned, you have to handle human readable names that aren't unique.
$machine_name = db_select('node_type', 'n')
->fields('n', array('type'))
->condition('name', 'Basic page')
->execute()->fetchField();
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@jurgebR thanks for the rely , do i have to write your code like this ?
$machine_name = db_query('node_type', 'n') $machine_name->fields('n', array('type') $machine_name->condition('name', 'Post your blog') $machine_name->execute()->fetchField();Commented Jun 5, 2013 at 16:27 -
i found some difficult to understand your code , can you please be more specific ? ^^ Commented Jun 5, 2013 at 16:33
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1My mistake, I've uncorrectly used db_query. Needs to be db_select, updated the answer. Just copy paste and change Basic page to Post your blog.– JurgenRCommented Jun 5, 2013 at 16:34
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And for folks that came here looking for the reverse: i.e. how to get the human readable name from the machine name: here's 1) how to get the
$nodeobject from withinsearch-result--node.tpl.php:$variables['result']['node']- drupal.org/comment/reply/535578/6186406 and 2) with the$nodeobject, get the type in machine name form and its human name equivalent:node_type_get_name($node)- api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules%21node%21node.module/function/… Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 16:18
Look at node_type_get_types for D7 and simply foreach looking for $object->name as Post your blog.
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i've tried the
node_type_get_typesfunction , it didn't work for my case Commented Jun 5, 2013 at 16:31