Utilities is a collection of inexpensive functions for pulling small amounts of data from core Drupal objects, nodes, users, files and comments. Sometimes you need to get a small piece of data, for example, the author id of a node, many times over in a page. Drupal's API provides node_load, which is great, but it can get a bit expensive if you have to call it hundreds of times.

Node Functions

simple_utilities_nodeProperty($nid, $field)
Returns a specified node field.
$nid = node ID.
$field = The field you want to return (Allowed values: title, uid, type, status, sticky, promote).

simple_utilities_nodeTaxonomy($nid)
Returns an indexed array of objects of node taxamony data with the following properties.
Parameter = node ID.

• 'tid' = The term ID
• 'term_name' = The term name
• 'description' = The term description
• 'weight' = The term weight
• 'vid' = The vocabulary ID
• 'vocabulary_name' = The vocabulary name
  

simple_utilities_nodeDates($nid)
Returns a node's last revision date and creation date as an object of timestamps.
Parameter = node ID.

• 'created' = The creation date of the Node
• 'changed' = The date of the last change

simple_utilities_nodeLastCommentData($nid)
Returns an object with the following properties.
Parameter = node ID.

• 'cid' = Comment ID
• 'timestamp' = Comment timestamp
• 'uid' = Comment author user id,
• 'username' = Comment author username
• 'count' = The total number of comment on the node.

User Functions

simple_utilities_userField($arg)
Return the specified user field.
$arg = user ID (int) or the user email (string).
$field = The field you want to return (Allowed values: name, status, created, login, access)..

simple_utilities_userEmail($uid)
Returns the user email.
$uid = user ID (int).

simple_utilities_userID($mail)
Returns the user email.
$mail = user email (string).

simple_utilities_userPicture($arg)
Returns a user's picture data as an associative array.
Parameter = user ID or the user email.

• filename
• path_to_file = Path to File
• mimetype
• size = in Bytes
• status
• timetamp = upload date

simple_utilities_userRoles($arg)
Returns a user's roles as an associative array.
Parameter = user ID or the user email.

• 'name' = role name
• 'rid' = role ID
• 'weight' = role weight

Comment Functions

simple_utilities_commentData($cid)
Returns data on a comment as an associative array.
Parameter = comment ID.

• title
• nid = The id of the node the comment is attached to
• status = approved or in moderation queue
• name = The comment author's name
• uid = The commnent author's user id
• homepage = The comment author's website
• hostname = Hostname of the user who posted the comment
• pid = The comment id of the it's parent comment
• thread = The depth of the comment if it's threaded
• created = Creation date timestamp
• body = The body of the comment

File Functions

function core_simple_utilities_fileData($fid)
Return data on a file as an associative array.
Parameter = file ID.

• filename
• path_to_file = Path to File
• mimetype
• size = in Bytes
• status
• timetamp = upload date

simple_utilities_fileUseCount($fid)
Returns an file's usage count.
Parameter = file ID.