content type field not printing

Question

In drupal 7, I defined a field for a custom content type and am trying to display its value via page.tpl.php. Nothing is appearing in the rendered page.

Here's the relevant piece of page.tpl.php. The field is 'field_mast". Note that I added print $title just so I could be sure that this template is being used. It is.

    <h1>Perinote&trade; <?php print $content['field_mast'] ?><br>
       <?php print $title ?> <br>Organize Your Way</h1>

My content type fields are:

Label  machine name field type            widget
Title  title        Node module element
mast   field_mast   Text                  Text field
Body   body         Long text and summary Text area with a summary

And for Manage Display, I have:

Field   Label        Format
Body    <Hidden>     Default
mast    Above        Default

Finally, for my actual content, I have:

Title: Notes contacts....
mast: User Guide
Body <p>This user guide...
Text format: Full HTML

Any ideas on what I need to do to get 'mast' to print?

Answer 1

try

<h1>Perinote&trade; <?php print render($content['field_mast']); ?><br>

or this one

<h1>Perinote&trade; <?php print render($content['field_mast']->value); ?><br>

I recommend you to download and install devel module and write

<?php kpr ($content);?>

to see what $content contains. you can also call this function in hook_preprocess_page as well.