node_load is still your friend. No real change there, you don't have to worry about the entity layer.
field_get_items will get you the values of the body field in the correct language. On 24 January 2011 14:16, Blaine Lang <blaine.l...@nextide.ca> wrote: > > You should probably not be using the DB API to load the field value. > > Since (in theory) we are able to have our actual field data stored in > > various back-ends, you should only really load the data via node or > entity > > loading functions. > > > The node table itself is still reliably in Sql though, so you can > select > > which node to display via the DB API. > > > Peter > > I agree peter and that's why I was exploring the entityController class > but did not see a good example of how I would do what I need - return > the body field for the node of type 'frontpage_quote'. > > I originally needed a random result and the site is only going to have > 10 at most so performance is not an issue as this is a light weight > marketing site, but I appreciate the DB questioning/ideas on the random > issue. > > blaine > > >
