On day 3 of trying to get this dang dynamic form to work. Scoured all the internet with only a few instances of someone trying this with a custom form. I am trying to create a dynamic form by building it multiple inside a foreach loop and rendering it to a template. Everything works great until I submit a value. The values to the correct edited form do not pass to the validate or submit handler.
Further more, I've not been able to figure out how to attach an ajax callback to the correctly edited form as well. However I left that snippet out for clarity on the problem.
- Add the theme
- Render the theme to a field on the node being viewed
- Preprocess the theme. Build the forms pass them to template
- Make the form, validate, submit functions
- Hook_forms to add a callback to the dynamic form
Here is the code
ec_task_credits.module
<?php
//[+] ADD THEME
function ec_task_credits_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
return [
'vocab_list' => [
'template' => 'vocab-list',
'variables' => array(),
'path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'ec_task_credits') . '/theme',
],
];
}
//[+] RENDER TPL INTO FIELD ON NODE_VIEW
function ec_task_credits_node_view($node, $view_mode, $langcode) {
if ($node->type == 'ol_todo') {
//render the template
$output = theme('vocab_list', array(
'task_nid' => $node->nid,
'task_list_nid' => $node->field_todo_list_reference[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['nid'],
)
);
//return the template to a field on node_view
$node->content['vocab_list_container'] = array(
'#markup' => $output,
);
}
}
//[+] PREPROCESS THE TEMPLATE FILE VARS - BUILD FORMS
function ec_task_credits_preprocess_vocab_list(&$vars) {
//build all the forms and send them to the template file
$vocab_insulation = taxonomy_vocabulary_machine_name_load('credit_list_insulation');
$terms_insulation = entity_load('taxonomy_term', FALSE, array('vid' => $vocab_insulation->vid));
$vocab_terms = $terms_insulation; //simple array of terms
if (!empty($vocab_terms)) {
$i=0;
foreach ($vocab_terms as $tid => $term){
$vars['test_form'][] = drupal_get_form('ec_task_credits_credit_form', $term->tid, $term->name);
$i++;
}
}
}
//[+] CUSTOM FORM CALLED MANY TIMES
function ec_task_credits_credit_form($form, &$form_state, $term_id, $term_name) {
if (!empty($term_id)) {
$form_id = '';
$form['#id'] = 'ec_task_credit_form_'.$term_id; //dynamic ID - works
$form['#base'] = 'ec_task_credits_credit_form'; //same #base
$form['term_group'] = array(
'term_field' => array(
'#markup' => $term_name,
'#tid' => $term_id,
'#id' => 'term_field_'.$term_id,
),
'browse_credit' => array(
'#type' => 'managed_file',
'#name' => 'browse_credit_'.$term_id,
'#title' => t('Block image'),
'#size' => 40,
'#id' => 'browse_credit_'.$term_id,
'#description' => t("Image should be less than 400 pixels wide and in JPG format."),
'#upload_location' => 'public://'
),
'comment_credit' => array(
'#type' => 'textarea',
'#name' => 'comment_credit_'.$term_id,
'#id' => 'comment_credit_'.$term_id,
'#title' => t('Comment'),
'#value' => t('Comment'),
),
'submit' => array(
'#type' => 'submit',
'#name' => 'comment_credit_'.$term_id,
'#id' => 'comment_credit_'.$term_id,
'#title' => t('Save'),
'#value' => t('Save'),
),
);
}
return $form;
}
//[+] VALIDATE FORM - RUNS ON SUBMIT BUT DOES NOT CONTAIN SUBMITTED $VALUES
function ec_task_credits_credit_form_validate($form, &$form_state) {
dpm('validate handler is running');
dpm($form_state);
dpm($form);
form_set_error('', t('Force this error to avoid submit for now'));
}
//[+] SUBMIT FORM - NOT DEALING WITH THIS YET
function ec_task_credits_credit_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
if (isset($form_state['values']['browse_credit'])) {
$file = file_load($form_state['values']['browse_credit']);
$file->status = FILE_STATUS_PERMANENT;
file_save($file);
}
}
//[+] HOOK_FORMS()
/*hook_forms does not work - it never prints a form_id of ec_task_credits_credit_form.
* It never sees it and thus cannot work with it
*/
function ec_task_credits_forms($form_id, $args) {
// $forms['ec_task_credits_credit_form']['callback'] = 'ec_task_credits_credit_form_callback';
// return $forms;
//$form_id only prints other forms on the page. never my custom form
$args = func_get_args();
$form_id = $args[0][0]; //trying to get the damn form_id - doesnt work
$dynamic_forms = array(
'ec_task_credits_credit_form',
);
$forms = array();
foreach ($dynamic_forms as $dynform) {
if (strpos($form_id, $dynform) === 0) {
$forms[$form_id] = array(
'callback' => $dynform,
'callback arguments' => array('testarg'),
);
}
}
return $forms;
}
theme/vocab-list.tpl.php
<h1>Vocab List</h1>
<div class="credit-list-container">
<?php print render($test_form);?>
</div>
IMG: The Output Which all appears to be fine and dandy
https://i.stack.imgur.com/nZDaL.png
IMG: Then when you submit a value it reloads the page and the value is not in $form_state
https://i.stack.imgur.com/E0CIX.png
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong or how I could set this up differently? How should I be make a dynamic form like this?
