function node_type_get_type

node_type_get_type($node)

Returns the node type of the passed node or node type string.

Parameters

$node: A node object or string that indicates the node type to return.

Return value

A single node type, as an object, or FALSE if the node type is not found. The node type is an object containing fields from hook_node_info() return values, as well as the field 'type' (the machine-readable type) and other fields used internally and defined in _node_types_build(), hook_node_info(), and node_type_set_defaults().

File

modules/node/node.module, line 410

The core that allows content to be submitted to the site. Modules and scripts may programmatically submit nodes using the usual form API pattern.

Code

function node_type_get_type($node) {
  $type = _node_extract_type($node);
  $types = _node_types_build()->types;
  return isset($types[$type]) ? $types[$type] : FALSE;
}