List out CCK field allowed values in Drupal

List out CCK field allowed values in Drupal

$field = field_info_field('field_machine_name');
$allowed_values = list_allowed_values($field);

This will return the allowed values list as array.

Usage:
field_info_field - Load the field instance by using field machine name
list_allowed_values - List out the allowed values

Load content field default image in Drupal 7

Code to get and display the Content(CCK) field information and display default image

$field_name = 'field_name';
$field = field_read_instances(array('field_name' => $field_name));
$field_fid = $field[0]['settings']['default_image'];
$image = file_load($field_fid);
$path = file_create_url($image->uri);