Moving CCK description field into the node body

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Submitted by drewish on Tue, 2007-01-23 17:18

Back in Drupal 4.7 if you were using CCK for nodes the node body was left empty. In Drupal 5 CCK nodes now can have a body. I wanted to move data from a field named description into the node body so I came up with the following snippet fit for running in the devel module's execute PHP block.

<?php
$result = db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE type = 'content_problem'");
while ($o = db_fetch_object($result)) {
  $node = node_load($o->nid);
  if ($node) {
    $node->body = $node->field_description[0]['value'];
    $node->format = $node->field_description[0]['format'];
    node_save($node);
  }
  print "$node->title<br>";
}
?>

Thank you

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2008-12-16 10:00.

I have need this one: $node->format = $node->field_description[0]['format'];

and I have get it :)

thanks for sharing

Sooo helpful

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2007-11-16 16:15.

I can't tell you how much time this saved me. I really appreciate you posting this.

-bryan kennedy

Woops, noticed one addition that would help

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2007-11-16 18:21.

I actually added this one line.

$node->teaser = node_teaser($node->field_burst_body[0]['value']);

So that the teasers would get saved along with the input to the body. Otherwise by teaser views were showing up blank.