In Drupal 7, I have a page content type that has a field called group (so the machine name is field_group). The field is a List (integer) field type.
This field might have allowed values as follows:
0|Description 1
1|Description 2
2|Description 3
If I want to see the value of this field for the current page, the following code correctly works:
echo render(field_view_field('node', $node, 'field_group'));
If the key were set to 1 for this page, the above code would display the value "Description 2."
However, is there a way to instead get the key (e.g., 0, 1, 2, etc.)?