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1. 8.9.x core/includes/entity.inc \entity_load()

Load entities from the database.

The entities are stored in a static memory cache, and will not require database access if loaded again during the same page request.

The actual loading is done through a class that has to implement the DrupalEntityControllerInterface interface. By default, DrupalDefaultEntityController is used. Entity types can specify that a different class should be used by setting the 'controller class' key in hook_entity_info(). These classes can either implement the DrupalEntityControllerInterface interface, or, most commonly, extend the DrupalDefaultEntityController class. See node_entity_info() and the NodeController in node.module as an example.

@todo Remove $conditions in Drupal 8.

Parameters

$entity_type: The entity type to load, e.g. node or user.

$ids: An array of entity IDs, or FALSE to load all entities.

$conditions: (deprecated) An associative array of conditions on the base table, where the keys are the database fields and the values are the values those fields must have. Instead, it is preferable to use EntityFieldQuery to retrieve a list of entity IDs loadable by this function.

$reset: Whether to reset the internal cache for the requested entity type.

Return value

An array of entity objects indexed by their ids. When no results are found, an empty array is returned.

See also

hook_entity_info()

DrupalEntityControllerInterface

DrupalDefaultEntityController

EntityFieldQuery

11 calls to entity_load()

comment_load_multiple in modules/comment/comment.module

Load comments from the database.

EntityLoadTestCase::testEntityLoadConditions in modules/simpletest/tests/entity_crud.test

Tests the functionality for loading entities matching certain conditions.

EntityLoadTestCase::testEntityLoadIds in modules/simpletest/tests/entity_crud.test

EntityLoadTestCase::testEntityLoadInvalidControllerClass in modules/simpletest/tests/entity_crud.test

Tests the controller class loading functionality on non-existing entity types and on entities without valid controller class.

FileTaxonomyTermTestCase::_testTermFile in modules/file/tests/file.test

Runs tests for attaching a file field to a taxonomy term.

... See full list

File

includes/common.inc, line 8209

Code

function entity_load($entity_type, $ids = FALSE, $conditions = array(), $reset = FALSE) {
    if ($reset) {
        entity_get_controller($entity_type)->resetCache();
    }
    return entity_get_controller($entity_type)->load($ids, $conditions);
}

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