I would like to like to be able to print out what has been submitted in my form in the submission form. How can I achieve this?
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Is this a form created yourself, or do you want to hook into a form defined in another module? Is this for debugging purposes, or do you actually want the site to show this data to the end user? – marcvangend Jul 3 '14 at 10:18
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a form that I created for debugging process – colinam1992 Jul 3 '14 at 10:28
You can display the submitted values in your hook_form_submit() and set it like this (example):
function form_example_tutorial_7_submit($form, &$form_state) {
drupal_set_message(t('The form has been submitted. name="@first @last", year of birth=@year_of_birth', array(
'@first' => $form_state['values']['first'],
'@last' => $form_state['values']['last'],
'@year_of_birth' => $form_state['values']['year_of_birth'],
)));
}
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You can also use dpm function from devel module. It prints using Krumo all kind of variables, complex arrays included. So you can just dpm the $form_state in the submit handler as Djouuuuh suggests. – sanzante Jul 3 '14 at 10:26
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OKaaayyy! I didn't know it was for debugging process. Of course use dpm with Devel module in the hook I suggested you. It's way easier. – Djouuuuh Jul 3 '14 at 11:58
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I really recommend spending some time setting up XDebug and using that. Here are some links. If you use a good IDE, like PHPStorm, you get great integration with XDebug and no need to mess up your code with debugging statements. :) code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/… xdebug.org/docs/install youtube.com/watch?v=LUTolQw8K9A – Ollie Jul 8 '14 at 9:43
Its better to install devel module and use the dpm function.
function MYMODULE_FORMID_submit($form, &$form_state) {
dpm(hook_form_id_submit);
}
Instead of printing stuff in the page output, I would recommend to use an IDE such as PhpStorm, Eclipse or Netbeans. Combined with Xdebug, you can set a breakpoint in the form submit function and inspect all variables available at that point. You'll find the submitted values in $form_State['values'].
answered Jul 3 '14 at 11:25
