> You should probably not be using the DB API to load the field value. > Since (in theory) we are able to have our actual field data stored in > various back-ends, you should only really load the data via node or entity > loading functions.
> The node table itself is still reliably in Sql though, so you can select > which node to display via the DB API. > Peter I agree peter and that's why I was exploring the entityController class but did not see a good example of how I would do what I need - return the body field for the node of type 'frontpage_quote'. I originally needed a random result and the site is only going to have 10 at most so performance is not an issue as this is a light weight marketing site, but I appreciate the DB questioning/ideas on the random issue. blaine
