Field Info API

Obtain information about Field API configuration.

The Field Info API exposes information about field types, fields, instances, bundles, widget types, display formatters, behaviors, and settings defined by or with the Field API.

See Field API for information about the other parts of the Field API.

File

modules/field/field.info.inc, line 34

Functions

Title Sort descending File name Summary
field_behaviors_widget modules/field/field.info.inc Determines the behavior of a widget with respect to an operation.
field_info_bundles modules/field/field.info.inc Returns information about existing bundles.
field_info_cache_clear modules/field/field.info.inc Clears the field info cache without clearing the field data cache.
field_info_extra_fields modules/field/field.info.inc Returns a list and settings of pseudo-field elements in a given bundle.
field_info_field modules/field/field.info.inc Returns data about an individual field, given a field name.
field_info_fields modules/field/field.info.inc Returns all field definitions.
field_info_field_by_id modules/field/field.info.inc Returns data about an individual field, given a field ID.
field_info_field_by_ids modules/field/field.info.inc Returns the same data as field_info_field_by_id() for every field.
field_info_field_map modules/field/field.info.inc Returns a lightweight map of fields across bundles.
field_info_field_settings modules/field/field.info.inc Returns a field type's default settings.
field_info_field_types modules/field/field.info.inc Returns information about field types from hook_field_info().
field_info_formatter_settings modules/field/field.info.inc Returns a field formatter's default settings.
field_info_formatter_types modules/field/field.info.inc Returns information about field formatters from hook_field_formatter_info().
field_info_instance modules/field/field.info.inc Returns an array of instance data for a specific field and bundle.
field_info_instances modules/field/field.info.inc Retrieves information about field instances.
field_info_instance_settings modules/field/field.info.inc Returns a field type's default instance settings.
field_info_max_weight modules/field/field.info.inc Returns the maximum weight of all the components in an entity.
field_info_storage_settings modules/field/field.info.inc Returns a field storage type's default settings.
field_info_storage_types modules/field/field.info.inc Returns information about field storage from hook_field_storage_info().
field_info_widget_settings modules/field/field.info.inc Returns a field widget's default settings.
field_info_widget_types modules/field/field.info.inc Returns information about field widgets from hook_field_widget_info().
hook_field_info_max_weight modules/field/field.api.php Returns the maximum weight for the entity components handled by the module.
_field_info_collate_fields modules/field/field.info.inc Collates all information on existing fields and instances.
_field_info_collate_types modules/field/field.info.inc Collates all information on field types, widget types and related structures.
_field_info_prepare_extra_fields modules/field/field.info.inc Prepares 'extra fields' for the current run-time context.
_field_info_prepare_field modules/field/field.info.inc Prepares a field definition for the current run-time context.
_field_info_prepare_instance modules/field/field.info.inc Prepares an instance definition for the current run-time context.
_field_info_prepare_instance_display modules/field/field.info.inc Adapts display specifications to the current run-time context.
_field_info_prepare_instance_widget modules/field/field.info.inc Prepares widget specifications for the current run-time context.

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