Removing a field from a feature
So you’ve created a feature, and made it a dependency of your site deployment module, and it contains a field you don’t want.
The problem is: your colleagues have the field installed on their local development machines, and the field is on your dev and prod environment.
What to do?
- Delete your field from your feature
- In your
hook_update_n(), revert your feature and add the following code:
(code to add:)
$fields_to_delete = array(
'field_to_be_deleted_along_with_all_its_instances',
);
$field_instances_to_delete = array(
array(
'entity_type' => 'node',
'field_name' => 'field_for_which_to_delete_only_specific_instances',
'bundle_name' => 'node_type_where_a_field_instance_lives',
),
);
foreach ($fields_to_delete as $field_to_delete) {
if (field_info_field($field_to_delete)) {
field_delete_field($field_to_delete);
}
}
foreach ($field_instances_to_delete as $field_instance_to_delete) {
$instance = field_info_instance($field_instance_to_delete['entity_type'], $field_instance_to_delete['field_name'], $field_instance_to_delete['bundle_name']);
if ($instance) {
field_delete_instance($instance);
}
}