How to add content programmatically to a field collection that it's in an entity (build with eck)

Question

I'm trying to save information into an entity build with eck, this entity has a field_collection with more fields.

I have take a look around internet, and I only find examples that works with node entity and user entity, but when I try to use the same code with my entity, it doesn't works.

This is my code:

<?php
$idform = 1;
$entity = entity_load('formulario',array($idform));
//dpm($entity);


$newfield_collection = entity_create('field_collection_item', array('field_name' => 'field_form_field'));
$newfield_collection->setHostEntity('formulario',$entity);
$newfield_collection->field_name[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]='name3';
$newfield_collection->field_form_id[LANGUAGE_NONE]['0']['value']=3;
$newfield_collection->field_sff_name[LANGUAGE_NONE]['0']['value'] = 'value name 3';
$newfield_collection->field_field_id[LANGUAGE_NONE]['0']['value'] = '13434';
$newfield_collection->field_field_type[LANGUAGE_NONE]['0']['value'] = 'value type 3';
$newfield_collection->save(FALSE);

?>

And this is my error message:

EntityMalformedException: Missing bundle property on entity of type formulario. in entity_extract_ids() (line 7633 of /home/oscar/webapps/www/drupal/drupal7/includes/common.inc).

I have debuging the code and seems that the problem is with setHostEntity But I don't know if it's because I build the entity with eck module.

Thanks

Oskar

Answer 1

The problem here is that entity_load returns an array, not the single entity. So you should do something like this :

$entities = entity_load('formulario',array($id));
$entity = end($entities);

and then the rest of your code ...

Answer 2

Use entity_load_single instead of entity_load to load single value instead of array.

This will solve the error.