I want to make node views "Edit link" field as a menu

Question

Is it possible to make "Edit link" field as a menu. On my site one user can create only node and I have a page view which displays the node the user logged on has created. This views has a "Edit link" field so that the user can jump to node edit page from this view page.

However I want to have a menu or tab that can directly link to the node edit page of the node the logged in user has created. It should a menu or a tab that says "edit my node" and the user can directly jump to the node edit page without visiting the page views.

Answer 1

Menu items in Drupal are cached, so you cannot make them dynamic. I recommend that you do like the user module in Drupal core does for the /user path.

First, create a custom module. In your custom module, implement hook_menu like this:

$items['my-page'] = array(
  'title' => 'My page', 
  'page callback' => 'edit_my_page', 
  'access callback' => TRUE, 
  'type' => MENU_CALLBACK, 
);

This will link the url example.com/my-page to the view_my_page() function. The view_my_page function could look like this (similar to user_page()):

function edit_my_page() {
  global $user;
  $my_nid = 0;

  // Write your own code here to retrieve the Node ID for the
  // current user and store the Node ID in $my_nid.

  if ($my_nid) {
    menu_set_active_item('node/' . $my_nid . '/edit');
    return menu_execute_active_handler();
  }
  else {
    return drupal_get_form('user_login');
  }
}

Now, when a user navigates to example.com/my-page, Drupal will serve the correct node edit page.

Answer 2

I'm a bit confused, because your question sounds like a basic Drupal feature that has been around for years: tabs with "local tasks" as they are called. Here is a screenshot from a Drupal 7 site, without any extra modules:

If I understand correctly, the 'Edit' tab is what you are looking for... Or isn't that what you need?