[development] Capturing $form array of a specific content type

[Sam Tresler]

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
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