Author Topic: api function for retrieving custom data? (Read 2561 times)

chrism · November 22, 2007, 10:33:19 am

I developed a customization to some forms which accessed values of some custom fields. I could not find an API that would retrieve a custom value so ended up using BAO, DAO functions.

I may be missing something conceptually, but given this 'create' function exists:
crm_create_custom_value($entity_table, $entity_id, &$custom_field, &$data, $separator=NULL)

would it make sense to have a complementary 'get' function?
e.g. crm_get_custom_value($entity_table, $entity_id, &$custom_field, $separator=NULL)

Donald Lobo · November 22, 2007, 02:56:53 pm

yes, adding a getter makes sense for custom values. We plan to take a pretty comprehesive look and figure out a better, more coherent api strategy in a 2.x release. I dont think our current solution is great and we can and should do better

lobo

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Author Topic: api function for retrieving custom data? (Read 2561 times)

chrism

api function for retrieving custom data?

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