On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:51 AM, nitin gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I wanted to add an imagefield to a content type, using the function > content_field_instance_create(). I wrote this piece of code. > $field['field_name'] = 'myfield'; > $field['type_name'] = 'story'; > $field['type'] = 'filefield'; > $field['widget_type'] = 'imagefield_widget'; > module_load_include('inc', 'content', 'includes/content.crud'); > content_field_instance_create($field); > This works perfectly fine with me, and an imagefield gets added to the > content type. are there any pitfalls in this i should take care of? or is > there any better way to do such a thing?
That's basically the approach I've been using for over a year: http://drewish.com/content/2008/07/programatically_creating_a_cck_field_in_drupal_6 The only complications I ran into with this approach was when you added fields in hook_install() and need to ensure field modules are installed: http://drewish.com/content/2009/06/creating_a_cck_field_in_hook_install andrew
