On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Nedjo Rogers <nedjo@islandnet.com> wrote:
Probably the closest we have in Drupal 6 would be calling content_fields() and then adding what's returned by hook_content_extra_fields() (see some explanation of this hook at http://www.lullabot.com/articles/great-pretender-making-your-data-act-field). The problem is lots of modules will have added user-editable fields but not implemented this CCK hook.
Nedjo nails the problem. Not everybody implements the CCK hook, so while I'm currently using the CCK API to get most of the fields, it's not perfect. In an ideal world, the node object would have been designed, rather that grown through accretion. The fields would be organized and we'd have an API to handle this. :-)