Drupal render form not rendering a form

Question

I have a cutom module which creates a page with a custom form. the problem is that i don't print whole form at once like :

$form = drupal_get_form('custom_example_form', $adverts);
print render($form);

Rather my code is like:

$form = drupal_get_form('custom_example_form', $adverts);
print render($form['name']);
print render($form['descriere']);
print render($form['submit']);
print render($form['form_id']);
print render($form['form_build_id']);

The problem us that is second example drupal is not generating

<form id="" accept-charset="" method="" action="">

How do i generate in second situation?

Answer 1

You should not print individual children elements of the form array, but render it completely (with render($form)).

If you want to fine tune the markup inside the <form> tag, you need to alter the form (using hook_form_FORM_ID_alter()) or provide a custom theme used for the form (i.e. in hook_theme() returns an items with the form ID as key).

Answer 2

I ended using this method to solve my issue, not an elegant solutions but it works:

in tpl:

$form = drupal_get_form('custom_example_form', $adverts);
print '<form id="'.$form['#id'].'" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="'.$form['#method'].'" action="'.$form['#action'].'">'; 
print render($form['name']);
print render($form['descriere']);
print render($form['submit']);
print render($form['form_id']);
print render($form['form_build_id']);
print '</form>';

it doesn't look good but is working.

Answer 3

If you are selectively rendering the form, you could unset some fields and render the whole form.

Answer 4

Try This,

$form = drupal_get_form('custom_example_form');
print render($form);