How To Create New Content Type Programmatically in Drupal 7?

I'm building a module (`my_module`) in Drupal 7.

It has some functionality and also will create new content type.

In *my_module.install* I implemented the `hook_install` (`my_module_install`).

Can I use more one implementation of `hook_install` to create new content type (`my_cck_install`) in this module?

If (yes), how should I do this?

Else: have I do this in another module? :-)

You can't use more than one implementation of `hook_install` in the same module; in PHP you can't have 2 function with the same name which rules this out.

You would just need to add your new content type in the same `hook_install` anyway (have a look at how the standard installation profile does it at /profiles/standard/standard.install). This is how I always add new content types from the install file (using the example of a testimonials module):

function testimonial_install() {
// Make sure a testimonial content type doesn't already exist
if (!in_array('testimonial', node_type_get_names())) {
$type = array(
'type' => 'testimonial',
'name' => st('Testimonial'),
'base' => 'node_content',
'custom' => 1,
'modified' => 1,
'locked' => 0,
'title_label' => 'Customer / Client Name'
);

$type = node_type_set_defaults($type);
node_type_save($type);
node_add_body_field($type);
}
}

The following code will create a content type called "Event" with a machine name of 'event' and a title field -

//CREATE NEW CONTENT TYPE
function orderform_node_info() {
return array(
'event' => array(
'name' => t('Event'),
'base' => 'event',
'description' => t('A event content type'),
'has_title' => TRUE
),
);
}


function event_form($node,$form_state) {
$form['title'] = array(
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('event Title'),
'#default_value' => !empty($node->title) ? $node->title : '',
'#required' => TRUE,
'#weight' => -5
);
return $form;
}
//END CONTENT TYPE

you should place it in your `.module` file... if you want do add additional fields to it, let me know and I'll patch you up with the code... good luck!

/**
* Implements hook_node_info()
*/
function mymodule_node_info() {
return array(
'news' => array(
'name' => t('News'),
'base' => 'news',
'description' => t('You can add News here'),
'has_title' => TRUE,
'title_label' => t('News title')
)
);
}

/**
* Implement hook_form()
*/
function mymodule_form($node, $form_state) {
return node_content_form($node, $form_state);
}


Add the implementation to mymodule.install is as follows:

/**
* Implements hook_install().
*/
function mymodule_install() {
node_types_rebuild();
$types = node_type_get_types();|
node_add_body_field($types['news']);
}

You can get a detailed description with code from [here][1]


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/*
* Implementation in hook node info in **.Module file**
*/

function test_node_info() {
return array(
'product' => array(
'name' => t('Product'),
'base' => 'product',
'description' => t('Product Title'),
)
);
}

/**
* Implement hook_form()
*/

function product_form($node, $form_state) {
return node_content_form($node, $form_state);
}
/**
* Implements hook_install() in **.install file**.
*/

function test_install() {
node_types_rebuild();
$types = node_type_get_types();
node_add_body_field($types['product']);
//New way to implement to add fields in your content type
foreach (_test_installed_fields() as $field) {
field_create_field($field);
}
foreach (_test_installed_instances() as $fieldinstance) {
$fieldinstance['entity_type'] = 'node';
$fieldinstance['bundle'] = 'product';
field_create_instance($fieldinstance);
}
}

/*
* Define your fields
*/

function _test_installed_fields() {
$t = get_t();
return array(
'product_title123' => array(
'field_name' => 'product_title123',
'label' => $t('Product Title'),
'type' => 'text'
),
'description123' => array(
'field_name' => 'description123',
'label' => $t('Description'),
'type' => 'text'
),

);
}

/*
* Define your instance of fields
*/

function _test_installed_instances() {
$t = get_t();
return array(
'product_title123' => array(
'field_name' => 'product_title123',
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $t('Product Title'),
'widget' => array(
'type' => 'text_textfield'
),
'display' => array(
'example_node_list' => array(
'label' => $t('Product Title'),
'type' => 'text'
)
)
),
'description123' => array(
'field_name' => 'description123',
'type' => 'text',
'label' => $t('Description'),
'widget' => array(
'type' => 'text_textarea_with_summary'
),
'display' => array(
'example_node_list' => array(
'label' => $t('Description'),
'type' => 'text'
)
)
),

);
}

/**
* Implements hook_uninstall().
*/

function test_uninstall() {
$ournewtype = 'product';
$sql = 'SELECT nid FROM {node} n WHERE n.type = :type';
$result = db_query($sql, array(':type' => $ournewtype));
$nodeids = array();
foreach ($result as $row) {
$nodeids[] = $row->nid;
}
node_delete_multiple($nodeids);
node_type_delete($ournewtype);
}

That's it.