Accessing field inside a block

Question

I have created a block to display flash content. All it needs a a variable to be assigned dynamically from the content to flashVar. I created a field called myfile path in the custom content type. Which is just a text pointing to the path of file. I also created a block and below is the code inside the block.

<?php
$myFilePath = field_get_items('node', $node, 'field_myfilepath');
?>

<script src="/player/swfobject.js"></script>
<script>
        function swfDimensions(width,height)
        {
           document.getElementById('altContent').style.width=width+'px';
           document.getElementById("altContent").style.height=height+'px';
        }
        var flashvars = {
                    filepath:"<?php echo $myFilePath;?>" // this where I use the filed value which my flash app uses internally

        };
        var params = {
            menu: "false",
            scale: "noScale",
            allowFullscreen: "true",
            allowScriptAccess: "always",
            bgcolor: "",
            wmode: "direct" // can cause issues with FP settings & webcam
        };
        var attributes = {
            id:"altContent"
        };
        swfobject.embedSWF(
            "/player/contentviewer.swf", 
            "altContent", "640px", "390px", "11.3.0",
            "/player/expressInstall.swf",
            flashvars, params, attributes);
    </script>
        <h4>Floorplan Basic</h1>

    <div id="altContent">
                To view this content you need Adobe flash player (v11+) plug-in installed on your browser
        <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">Get Adobe Flash player</a></p>
    </div>

I am getting this error

EntityMalformedException: Missing bundle property on entity of type node. in entity_extract_ids() (line 7663 of C:\...\www\includes\common.inc).

Can any on tell me how to get the value of the field in this block? I am totally new to drupal.

Answer 1

I guess $node is not defined. You should know when a node page is shown. Then get the node id using arg(1). Load the node object and then use.

Answer 2

Try variable_set() and variable_get()

Set the variable like that:

// I have assumed the variable name to be "the_name_of_the_variable"
variable_set("the_name_of_the_variable", "the value of the variable");

And then retrieve the value like that:

$my_variable = variable_get("the_name_of_the_variable", "a default value in case the variable has never been set before");