We have talked about the Views Custom Field module previously. If you have no idea what is it for, you can take a look @ Drupal – Custom PHP code for Views Field.

Sometimes we may need to get a full node using Views Custom Field. For example, i want to get the number of images of a node.

<?php
  $center = node_load($data->nid, NULL, TRUE);
  if (empty($center->field_center_image[0])) {
    print "0";
  } else {
    print(count($center->field_center_image));
  }
?>

 

Everything works fine. But suppose you want to get the number of another fields, it is definitely not a good approach to reuse the above snippet and load the node again.

The workaround is to temporarily store the next field data in the $data array. Let’s make some changes to the above code snippet.

<?php
  $center = node_load($data->nid, NULL, TRUE);
  if (empty($center->field_center_image[0])) {
    print "0";
  } else {
    print(count($center->field_center_image));
  }

  // Store the number of school images for the next field
  if (empty($center->field_school_image[0])) {
    $data->customfield_school_image_count = 0
  } else {
    $data->customfield_school_image_count = count($center->field_school_image);
  }
?>

 

So now you can add a new custom field and simply print the stored data.

<?php
  print $data->customfield_school_image_count;
?>

 

Done =)

Reference: Cannot reference $static to pass data from one phpcode field to another