Author Topic: how to retrieve a custom table field value? (Read 2373 times)

saffrongeek · June 17, 2009, 04:16:04 am

Hi,

I am a newbie with civicrm and drupal integration and customisation. I have used the CRM_Core_DAO::getFieldValue(..) to get a field value for dao object. But I do not find, how to get a field value from a custom temporary table with searched value column.

It would be a great pointer since I have to write a cron script which used few temporary tables to prepare params for creation to civicrm events table.

Thanking in advance, I remain

Regards,

Harish Balakrishnan Marar

abrookins · June 17, 2009, 07:41:04 am

One way is to use something like the first two code snippets xurizaemon included in this post: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,3695.html

He adds a static method -- CRM_Core_BAO_CustomField::getCustomFieldID() -- which returns the ID of the custom field, and then uses it as a parameter in his civicrm_contact_get() call.

However, I'm interested in the best way to do this as of 2.2.5.

Donald Lobo · June 17, 2009, 08:50:31 am

Thats is still a good way to do it for 2.2.x / 2.3.x

lobo

hlevinson · November 19, 2009, 11:34:37 am

I have a similar need to return custom field values.

I am able to retrieve the custom field data using

Code: [Select]

civicrm_contact_get()

when I know the field number. But that means hardcoding the field number in my app.

So I'm just wondering if in CiviCRM v. 3.x

1. There is now a better way to do this, or
2. Do you anticipate that CustomField.php might be patched to include the getCustomFieldId() function?

I know I can do the code override described in the ACL article myself, but don't want to if there's a better way.

thanks

Donald Lobo · November 19, 2009, 08:23:03 pm

ive asked chris (xur1z) to create an issue and a patch for this. if he does so, we'll include it in 3.1

lobo

hlevinson · November 20, 2009, 07:10:50 am

thanks Lobo

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