Consider using the Upload API module, http://drupal.org/project/upapi. It provides a form element type for a file upload, making it relatively easy to add file fields to nodes and other Drupal forms. It is not exposed via CCK, but hopefully will be in the future. For now, you have to use hook_form or hook_form_alter. It also has some support for previews. That is, hit the preview button on the node form and you'll see files that haven't yet been submitted. As far as I know neither the upload module or the CCK fields support this. -Dave On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:18:44 -0500, "Isaac Simon Hodes" <ISimonHodes@jwa.org> said:
Hello, I'm new to the forms API and hoping for some advice. I am creating a multistep form in 5.3. The form uses drupal_execute to generate new CCK nodes. The basic form is working, but I cannot figure out how to make drupal_execute attach files to the new nodes as it creates them.
I would like to simply pass a form value to the CCK node form (through drupal_execute) along with the other necessary fields. E.g. something along the lines of
$values['file']['field_object_file_upload'][0] = $form_values['my_form_file_upload_field'];
Solutions involving either upload module or a CCK file field would be fine.
Does anyone have advice? (I hope this is an appropriate question for the "development" list. Based on the descriptions at lists.drupal.org that seems to be the case; if not, please let me know where I should post it.) Thanks for your help!