the blessing and curse of cck is the ability to quickly create very complex node types within drupal. it doesn't take very long before the input form for a complex node type has become unmanageably long, requiring your user to do a lot of scrolling to get to the bottom of the form. the obvious solution is to break your form into multiple pages, but there is no easy way to do this. there do exist two proposed solutions to this, the cck wizard module and a drupal handbook entry. however, the well-intentioned cck wizard module doesn't seem to work, and the example code in the drupal handbook becomes tedious to repeat for each content type. to fill the void, i bring you cck witch

cck witch is based on the same premise as the handbook entry : the most natural way to divide a cck form into pages is to use field groups. from there, however, cck witch diverges, taking a relatively lazy, yet effective approach to the problem of multi page forms: on every page we render the entire form, but then simply hide the fields and errors that do not belong to the current step. it also offers an additional feature : when the form is complete and the node is rendered, an individual edit link is provided for each step - allowing the user to update the information only for a particular page in the form, without having to step through the entire wizard again.

if you've now read enough to be curious to see the goods, then please, be my guest and skip straight to the live demo.

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