Add Edit this node/block link to Drupal View

It is often useful to add a "edit this node" or "edit this block" if a site editor is viewing content on a page that is not the node page itself. This includings viewing content from a "view" page where the normal edit tabs are not present for nodes or blocks.

Add the snippet to the template page for the content type. ie node-TYPE.tpl.php

Replace:
TYPE with the machine readable name of the content type.
TODO: ADD RELEVANT CONTENT TYPE with machine readable name of the content type.

  1. if (user_access('edit any TODO: ADD RELEVANT CONTENT TYPE')) 
  2. {
  3.   print l('Edit this', 'node/'.$node->nid.'/edit');
  4. }
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Comments

Submitted by chichilatte (not verified) on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 13:52

Nice one, very handy!

Submitted by dan (not verified) on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 09:54

thanks, just wht I was looking for.

Submitted by dan (not verified) on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 16:43

if (node_access('update', $nid , $user))
{ echo " ";
echo l('Edit', 'node/'.$nid.'/edit');
echo "";
}

Submitted by Nasir Mirza (not verified) on Tue, 09/27/2016 - 10:37

Thanks for the great information provided..........

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