Thanks Earl. I tried that approach and am still getting the $form before CCK has added the additional elements, which is a little confusing to me, because ctools/includes/form.inc does seem to be intercepting close enough to render time to return it, so I'm guess I need a more populated $form_state to pass into the function (currently just using $form_state = array('want form' => TRUE,);) I'm going to tinker away at it for a bit, but am close to manually creating the elements I need inside of my custom form, and submitting them n a custom _form_submit. I was mostly reluctant to do this because it involves a file upload with image cropper, and that seems an excessive amount to code when it already exists *somewhere*. Incidentally, would a valid approach be to (*gasp*) hack core to store the form_array in question in memcache when a drupal_get_form is called, explicitly so I could pull it out of memcache with a var_get? I just thought of that, so maybe it's bunk. Thanks again, and any advice is appreciated. -Sam On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Earl Miles wrote:

There is no easy way to get this with Drupal.

If you're using CTools, you can use ctools_build_form with 'want form' => TRUE in the $form_state.

On 10/14/2010 10:31 AM, Sam Tresler wrote:

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Could be I am missing something easy here, but is there a standard way to get the $form array of a node/add/* right before it would be rendered. Basically, I want it after all the hook_form_alters ave happened, but I want the array, not the html drupal_render generates?

I'm working on a custom form that I want to potentially create several nodes. I could just manually create the same fields and then deal with the submit, but it seems to me that they must already exist *exactly* how I want them anyway. Currently I have the following:

function my_form($form, &$form_state) { $my_form = array();

// Some fields added to $my_form...

$fake_node->type = 'my_content_type';

$node_form = node_form(&$form_state, $fake_node);

$form = array_merge($node_form, $form);

//More fields added to $my_form...

return $form; }

However, that just gives me the standard node fields, not the CCK fields that exist in my_content_type.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

Sam Tresler 646-246-8403

Sam Tresler 646-246-8403

In this case, no, I'm creating a sort of 'uber' form that based on previous selections displays a different node/add form to the user. My original plan was to gather all the elements of all the node forms, set them to unrequired, and display them either in a multistep process, or via ajax reveals onclick of the previous elements. I am going to spend some time taking a look at ctools, and if I don't find what I need there, move on to just creating my own form elements. Thanks. On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Domenic Santangelo wrote:

Would hook_form_alter()'ing the node/add form you're operating on not work for your purpose?

On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Sam Tresler wrote:

...

Could be I am missing something easy here, but is there a standard way to get the $form array of a node/add/* right before it would be rendered. Basically, I want it after all the hook_form_alters ave happened, but I want the array, not the html drupal_render generates?

I'm working on a custom form that I want to potentially create several nodes. I could just manually create the same fields and then deal with the submit, but it seems to me that they must already exist *exactly* how I want them anyway. Currently I have the following:

function my_form($form, &$form_state) { $my_form = array();

// Some fields added to $my_form...

$fake_node->type = 'my_content_type';

$node_form = node_form(&$form_state, $fake_node);

$form = array_merge($node_form, $form);

//More fields added to $my_form...

return $form; }

However, that just gives me the standard node fields, not the CCK fields that exist in my_content_type.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

Sam Tresler 646-246-8403

Sam Tresler 646-246-8403