In-place editing of CCK fields

Activeedit can be extended to add support for a given module by writing a modulename.inc file and adding it to the /modules directory in the activedit module directory. It will be automatically included if the module it's named for is enabled.

In this case, we'd need a content.inc file. It will need, at a minimum, an implementation of hook_activeedit_elements().

This hook returns information on the form fields to attach this behavior to. For an example, see node.inc's function node_activeedit_elements().

The basic node editing framework is already taken care of. What we need to add is just the specific data needed for editing this element. Here are some notes.

  // Each node field should return an item in the $elements['node'] array.
  $elements['node']['node_title'] = array(
    // The tooltip title text that will appear when users hover over the edit button.
    '#title' => t('post title'),
    // The jQuery selector that identifies this element within a rendered node, so that the behavior can be
    // attached.
    // This selector can be overridden for a given theme by including a themename.inc file in
    // the activeedit module's /theme directory.
    '#selector' => 'h2.title > a',
    // The label of the submit button. This is needed to ensure that we don't hide this button when
    // producing an edit form.
    '#submit_text' => t('Submit'),
    // An array identifying the form name and field name.
    '#form' => array(
      // In this case 'node_form' is a special case, as the forms will actually be named for the node
      // type. 
      'node_form' => array(
        // If the element is nested in e.g. a fieldset, we can access it directly by giving the nested keys.
        // E.g., for $form['first_fieldset']['second_element'], we would pass the array 
        // 'first_fieldset', 'second_element'.
        array(
          'title',
        ),
      ),
    ),
    '#require' => 'title',
  );

Is there a way to activate one field at a time when using custom CCK fields?

A la Flickr, I'd like to be able to double-click the heading and have just the heading turn into a input field.