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I want to contain my custom content type's image field (cck) within a block. I define the block within hook_block_view:

function foxyidx_block_view($delta)
{
    $t = get_t();
    if ( arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) ) {
        $node = node_load(arg(1));
    }
    switch($delta)
    {
        case 'foxyidx_images':
            $block['subject'] = '';
            $render_out = drupal_render($node->field_image);
            $block['content'] = <<<HTML
                {$render_out}
HTML;
            break;

If I were to render the image_field in a template I would use 

print drupal_render($content['image_field']);

However, in the hook_block_view function I assume I need to use another function. Any ideas?

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I think a combination of field_get_items() and field_view_value() would do the trick:

$image_items = field_get_items('node', $node, 'field_image');
$image_view = field_view_value('node', $node, 'field_image', array_shift($image_items));

$block['content'] = render($image_view);
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  • You rock like a hurricane!
    – Brian P Johnson
    Commented May 24, 2012 at 23:42
  • I modified this solution a little to handle multiple images in the image_field. $block['subject'] = ''; $render_out = drupal_render($node->field_image); $image_items = field_get_items('node', $node, 'field_image'); $image_view = ''; foreach($image_items as $image_item) { $image_view .= render(field_view_value('node', $node, 'field_image', $image_item)); } $block['content'] = $image_view;
    – Brian P Johnson
    Commented May 25, 2012 at 2:24
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I modified this solution a little to handle multiple images in the image_field.

$block['subject'] = '';
            $render_out = drupal_render($node->field_image);
            $image_items = field_get_items('node', $node, 'field_image');
            $image_view = '';
            foreach($image_items as $image_item)
            {
                $image_view .= render(field_view_value('node', $node, 'field_image', $image_item));
            }
$block['content'] = $image_view;
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I found this answer on drupal.org It handles it in a different way.

http://drupal.org/node/154066

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