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3. Deeper into Fields

In this chapter, we’ll dig more into fields and all the detailed information for each one. We’ll discuss field types in greater depth and explore why you might prefer one type of field over another in your content type. We’ll also look at some field types that you might want to add that are not part of the core Content Construction Kit (CCK) package. And we can’t forget about dates, or special uses of fields where you want to derive a value from other information.

Choosing Field Types

In Chapter 2, we went through the processes of creating a new content type and adding a field to an existing content type. To this point, we’ve looked at the various data types. Most of them are straightforward, but others aren’t as obvious ...