In this article, we will study $node object which is available in node.tpl.php template to use it for adjusting of a node design.

Solution:

You can view content of a node with standard PHP functions (insert the following code to node.tpl.php):  print_r($node)

Variables of $node are:

• body – document text
• changed – a date of a change in Unix-format
• comment – if comments are enabled. There are three values for this variable
• comment_count – number of comments.
• created – creation date in Unix-format (string(10) “1198024338”)
• data – was NULL
• files – attached files
• format – input format number starting from 1.
• last_comment_name – name of the last commenter
• last_comment_timestamp – date of the last comment in Unix format
• moderate – moderation flag. Equals to 0 if a node doesn’t require moderation.
• name – name of an author
• nid – id of a node
• path – relative path synonym (“content/turpis-premo-inhibeo-abico-luctus”)
• picture – user picture (chup)
• promote – “on home”=1, otherwise=0
• revision_timestamp – revision date in Unix-format
• status – published= 1, otherwise=0
• sticky – above the others =1, otherwise=0
• taxonomy – parent of a node. This is an array.
• teaser – teaser
• title – node title
• type – node type
• uid – id of an author
• vid – version id of a node. Doesn’t always equals to nid.

Additional modules

Additional modules could add their own variables to this object. These modules are:

• CCK – every field you add will be a set of parameters
• Nodeteaser – adds $node->nodeteaser, which is TRUE  or FALSE; the proper teaser is in $node->teaser.