Content Types and drupal_get_form

Question

I've created a content type for authenticated users to use, to create and edit & delete their own of. I have set up the permissions and can get access as a authenticated user to the forms directly via node/add/story & node/19401/edit.

Now i want to use the form on another page, to be used in a block within a panel.

$form = drupal_get_form('story_node_form');
return drupal_render($form);

using drupal_get_form doesn't seem to work correctly is there another function I should be using to pull in the form?

*UPDATE

I managed to get it to work using node_add

include_once(drupal_get_path('module','node') . '/node.pages.inc' );
return drupal_render(node_add('story'));

is there any security issues with this method?

Answer 1

This is no secure issues with this.

• Drupal 6 return node_add('story')
• Drupal 7 return drupal_render(node_add('story'))

Returns a node submission form.

for more information checkout the node_add() function

Answer 2

Actually what I need was to display a node addition form of any content type say 'page' on any custom callback, so that a user can use that form to submit and create a node. In order to get this thing working, we need to include node.pages.inc as this is required by a node form to get loaded successfully. Following code worked for me in drupal 6.

// required for Drupal 6

  module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.pages');  

  // which nodeform you want

  $node_type = 'YOURNODETYPE';

  $form_id = $node_type . '_node_form';

  // maybe add current users info

  global $user;

  // create a blank node

  $node->uid = $user->uid;

  $node->name = (isset($user->name) ? $user->name : '');

  $node->type = $node_type;

  // Invoke hook_nodapi and hook_node

  node_object_prepare($node);

  // Or you can also use an exiting node, for example 

  // $node = node_load(123);

  // and the display the form:

  $output = drupal_get_form($form_id, $node);

Answer 3

all you have to do something like that

  $node = new StdClass();
    $node->uid = $user->uid;
    $node->type = 'article';
    $node->language = '';
    node_object_prepare($node);
    $form = drupal_get_form('catering_information_node_form', $node);
    $output .= drupal_render($form);
    return output;