Programmatic CCK Content Types: why my way?

A few days ago, I have announced the Alternate Content Copy module, which hopefully is going to be accepted on the Drupal.org project repository (as soon as I submit it).

In that article I explained the general reasons why those modifications should be part of the official Content Copy module.

Now, I do realise that Fields in D7 might be so different that everything I am about to say could not make any sense in the near future. However, I would like, with this article, to explain why the programmatic update of CCK content types does benefit of my modifications.

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Programmatic CCK Content Types – Updated

Not long ago, I published a HowTo for creating CCK Content Types programmatically, including the ability of updating them via code. After some events, the HowTo needed an update, as it now (necessarily) depends on the Alternate Content Copy module.

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CCK – Alternate Content Copy

Eventually, markus_petrus did not want to change the current behaviour of the CCK Content Copy module. Therefore, out of box, it won’t allow you to use my way to get CCK content type done programmatically (well, not including the update of them). But let’s forget about this for now. Let’s focus on CCK and the Content Copy module.

Content Copy import form

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About me

Vincenzo Russo
Hello, this is Vincenzo, I am a computer scientist, a Web engineer, a passionate and enthusiastic developer, an HCI passionate, and, sometimes, a Machine learning researcher. I currently hold a permanent position as Technical Lead Engineer at Ibuildings, in London. Learn more about me.