I only know the title of a node, and I want to load the node using node_load().
How do I do that?
6 Answers
In Drupal 6, you can use the following code.
$node = node_load(array('title' => 'node title'));
If you know the node's type as well, then you can use the following code.
$node = node_load(array('title' => 'node title', 'type' => 'page'));
node_load() always returns a single node. That is because the function doesn't loop over the database query result resource returned from db_query().
if ($revision) {
array_unshift($arguments, $revision);
$node = db_fetch_object(db_query('SELECT ' . $fields . ' FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = n.uid INNER JOIN {node_revisions} r ON r.nid = n.nid AND r.vid = %d WHERE ' . $cond, $arguments));
}
else {
$node = db_fetch_object(db_query('SELECT ' . $fields . ' FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = n.uid INNER JOIN {node_revisions} r ON r.vid = n.vid WHERE ' . $cond, $arguments));
}
answered Jun 27, 2011 at 14:25
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3@sokratis Keep in mind that titles don't have to be unique and can be changed at any time. If you can switch to referencing by node id, that would be safer.– David LJun 27, 2011 at 18:40
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1This example also just plain won't work in D7.
node_load(). Have edited question tag to reflect this.– ChapabuMay 28, 2012 at 15:33 -
3D7 version (albeit using the deprecated
$conditionsparameter):$nodes = node_load_multiple(array(), array('title' => 'node title'));– Clive ♦May 28, 2012 at 15:44
In Drupal 7, the parameters for node_load() has been changed. To get the nodes that match some conditions, you should use the EntityFieldQuery class.
$query = new EntityFieldQuery();
$entities = $query->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node')
->propertyCondition('type', 'your_node_type')
->propertyCondition('title', 'your node title')
->propertyCondition('status', 1)
->range(0,1)
->execute();
if (!empty($entities['node'])) {
$node = node_load(array_shift(array_keys($entities['node'])));
}
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1node_load(array('title' => 'node title', 'type' => 'page')) - this will obsolete soon, so this answer is correct.– NikitApr 23, 2014 at 6:37
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Drupal 7
Here is a simpler way (as already suggested by Clive and at SO):
$nodes = node_load_multiple(NULL, array("title" => "Foo Bar"));
$node = current($nodes);
and much easier to remember than using EntityFieldQuery class.
See also: Programmatically getting nodes by title in Drupal 7 at SO
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3nice approach, unfortunalty intented to die, as exposed in [api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules%21node%21node.module/function/… (function node_load_multiple)
@todo Remove $conditions in Drupal 8.– AugustoApr 12, 2017 at 19:35 -
This code is not compatible with Drupal 8, where the second argument of
node_load_multiple()is a Boolean value telling Drupal to reset the internal cache used for the loaded entities.– apaderno ♦Dec 12, 2020 at 14:16 -
@augusto That isn't a reason sufficient not to use the code shown here, though. Even using the
EntityFieldQueryclass would require changes to port the code to Drupal 8.– apaderno ♦Dec 12, 2020 at 14:28
In Drupal 7, you can use code similar to the following one.
$result = db_query("SELECT n.nid FROM {node} n WHERE n.title = :title AND n.type = :type", array(":title"=> $title, ":type"=> $type));
$nid = $result->fetchField();
answered May 13, 2012 at 16:32
In Drupal 8, run this:
$nodes = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
->getStorage('node')
->loadByProperties(['title' => $title]);
foreach ( $nodes as $node ) {
$node->doSomething(...);
}
$node will be a fully instantiated node object.
Also in Drupal 8
$nids = \Drupal::entityQuery('node')
->condition('title', 'YourNodeTitle')
->sort('nid', 'DESC')
->execute();
and next:
$node = \Drupal\node\Entity\Node::load(HEREYOUNODEID);
Dont forget you need
use Drupal\node\Entity\Node;
arg(1)it will be node/X for all pages. andnode_load()works on only NID