Questions tagged [forms]
Use it for questions about the Form API. Don't use it for entity or entity field forms.
6,838
questions
0
votes
1
answer
5k
views
jQuery UI Dialog attempt to submit a form using AJAX redirects me to the actual form page instead of AJAX submitting
I have a form and I want to do the following
Click a link to popup a modal JqueryUI Dialog window
Load into this window, via AJAX, a Form
Submit the form via AJAX
Upon successful submission, Close ...
- 1
3
votes
2
answers
7k
views
prevent redirect after form submit?
I'm using drupal's form API as part of a block in my module.
When the form is submitted, I want to change the content of the block to something else, let's say "Thanks". I do not want the page to ...
- 4,009
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
hook_theme not being called in module
I'm working on a module that has a custom output for the form that's being called, and this form has multiple pages. The multiple page part is being called correctly, but I can't get the theme to ...
- 215
2
votes
1
answer
71
views
Node form – self changing theme
I'm adding different way of node editing so I have this code in my module:
$items['node/%node/edit-full'] = array(
'title' => 'Full edit',
'page callback' => 'node_page_edit',
'page arguments' =...
- 604
1
vote
2
answers
3k
views
Easily theming Form Fields - How to get minimum HTML required for form field in Drupal 7
I'm using my own templates to modify forms, i.e. user registration form. In my custom template, I call drupal_render($form['field_email']); to get output for a text input used for taking user's Email.
...
- 1,226
2
votes
3
answers
1k
views
How do I programmatically retrieve the inputs from a form?
I am implementing a hook_form_alter in my custom module and I want to get all the inputs from the $form variable.
So, if for example there is a textarea, a radio button and a checkbox, I want to grab ...
user6102
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
How do you use forms to populate content type fields?
Drupal 7. Custom module.
I have a content type 'RFI' with a handful of fields I created with Drupal UI. I want a user to: fill out a form & click submit while drupal: saves fields to database, ...
- 81
0
votes
2
answers
552
views
render full form
I need to render a full form, including the <form>....</form> tags. Any ideas how can I do that?
I tried drupal_render() and render(). The form elements are rendered but there is no <...
- 3,072
2
votes
2
answers
3k
views
How to apply a theme function/template to my form
I think theme_form() is responsible for rendering forms! I want to change the look of a form, a lot. I think just instead of theme_form I can use my custom theme function/template file.
I can use ...
- 1,226
6
votes
2
answers
3k
views
$form['redirect'] = "something=$someId"; doesn't work in Drupal 7
I am here again with a problem! I want to make a form redirect usign a url with ids and somethings else as parameter, but when the code is executed something encode my url, so, if I put something like ...
- 133
2
votes
1
answer
695
views
Ajax form - Multiple select elements
I have a form with multiple select elements with an #ajax callback on change. The ajax is working but the problem is that I can't figure out how to find which select has triggered the ajax. All ajax ...
- 3,072
2
votes
1
answer
351
views
Where is $form_state stored between form build, and form submit functions?
I assume that $form_state data can normally be stored either in the database, or in the session.
In this code:
function _module_name_main_form($form, $form_state) {
$form_state['random_extra_data']...
- 27.5k
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Saving form after altering it
I'm altering the "Edit menu link" form
function module_name_form_menu_edit_item_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
$form['html_content'] = array(
'#type' => 'textarea',
...
- 115
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
Hide create new account tab
How to hide Create new account and Request new password tabs in user login form? I use Drupal 7. I use custom theme. Maybe in template.php file some function?
You can see my page - http://broceni....
- 31
1
vote
0
answers
129
views
Display Comment Wrapper for Anonymous users
I would like to display comment-wrapper.tpl on a node to anonymous users, even though they have to login to comment and even when there are 0 comments on the node. Ideally it would display the wrapper ...
- 51
4
votes
1
answer
3k
views
form error Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array
It's pretty stright forward, im trying to display the results of my form, Im having trouble finding something that explains how to display the results outside of the drupal_set_message() code, I ...
- 723
6
votes
5
answers
3k
views
Permissions Administration Module
Is there a working module for Drupal 7 to restyle admin/people/permissions/list to add more usable controls? Some serious boons to building a large site with lots of permissions:
Incremental search/...
- 163
1
vote
1
answer
202
views
Text format dropdown has dissapeared from edit article form
There is something strange it happened at a certain time. I no longer can set the text format from article (node) edit because the Text format input has dissapeared.
I can configure them from ...
- 2,823
2
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Add markup to form during validation
I have a custom validator on a webform. When a person enters an address, I validate it. When the address is not right, I set an error in the validation function. This is all going well. But now I want ...
- 236
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
Alter the menu_edit_item form
I'm trying the alter the menu_edit_item (Edit menu link in a menu element) with a module. So far I tried
function module_name_form_menu_edit_item_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
...
- 115
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
save the value of a custom form in the database
Why isn't the code saving values in the database?
module_load_include('inc', 'firstform', 'firstform_node_form_alter');
function firstform_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['submit_driven_ajax'] = ...
- 487
0
votes
1
answer
355
views
Processing forms together for a tree of related entities
I have EntityA which has one or more EntityB's which have one or more EntityC's. EntityB references values of EntityA and EntityC references values of EntityB. My current plan is to have an id field ...
- 1,101
4
votes
4
answers
4k
views
Prevent ajax submit function being called when it fails validation
I have a form, that when it's submitted, should be validated, and if valid, the results of that form should then appear below the form.
This works fine without AJAX:
function _form_validate($form, &...
- 567
1
vote
1
answer
170
views
Form timing out with drupal_set_message
I am getting some type of timing out error and not sure how to fix it or even where to begin, the error looks something like this http://pastebin.com/M8Wz4KEY
/**
* Block info
*/
function ...
- 723
4
votes
4
answers
5k
views
Adding AJAX to existing node form
Creation of new content type by D7 core is intuitive, fast and nice looking. We don't have to worry about db tables and simple validation. We have widgets, displays, etc. And actually we are building ...
- 326
3
votes
3
answers
5k
views
What's the best way to create a booking form?
I need to create a booking form for an event.
This form will contain normal text field plus one drop down list with the number of tickets.
There will be a prefilled field with the price of the single ...
- 2,316
0
votes
1
answer
143
views
Why this callback doesn't show all node form?
This question is related to:
Custom module embedding existing node form
After dealing with returning existing node form via custom module (my_singnup module achieved with the big help of Clive) ...
- 326
3
votes
2
answers
936
views
Best way to break up node edit forms smaller, more manageable forms?
It's pretty common to end up with massive node edit forms once content types start accumulating fields. Collapsable fieldsets and vertical tabs help the UI, but it can still be overwhelming.
Example: ...
- 433
0
votes
2
answers
842
views
form submission not working
I am just starting out making my module and already running into 2 problems, I believe this is being cause because the form is in a block but I am not entirely sure. This is what I have in my .module ...
- 723
2
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Custom module embedding existing node form
I have the following content types:
event
signup
I'm dealing with my_singnup module, for which I wish to:
allow user to add signup content (same as core node/add/signup)
using signup/event/%...
- 326
10
votes
3
answers
21k
views
Image Upload in a Custom Module
I'm writing a custom module, and I need it to upload an image. I'm having trouble finding good documentation on this, but I think I'm close.
What am I missing? $file returns false in the form ...
- 203
0
votes
2
answers
870
views
How do you handle static HTML forms saved in a "Basic Page" in Drupal 7?
I am a Drupal newbie and have been asked to help with some issues on a Drupal implementation. I have been asked to handle HTML forms that have already been designed and saved in "Basic Page" as either ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
492
views
How can I theme profile field forms in an HTML table?
I put this code in Drupal 6, and made a template file called "user-register.tpl.php" to override the default registration page.
function my_theme_theme(){
return array(
'user_register' => ...
- 1,021
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
Issue with Mac OS and AJAX in Forms
I'm working on a custom field type module for a Drupal 7 project and tried to make use of Drupal's AJAX framework in forms.
For some reason not even the simplest AJAX requests work on my machine (...
- 11
0
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Has anyone implemented a tablesort with ajax? [closed]
I would like to sort on a column with a round trip but no page reload. The table is very large and has to be paged in, which I am doing manually with an ajax select element. I know TableSort is ...
- 1,101
1
vote
1
answer
672
views
How to alter the result of my view using filters?
I have a view with 2 exposed filter.. I only want to change the result of my view when filters are used, ie if they have any value and press the button to run the filters.
I try to used the ...
- 343
2
votes
0
answers
802
views
Component returned failure code: 0x80460001 (NS_ERROR_CANNOT_CONVERT_DATA) [nsIDOMFormData.append]
We're building a drupal-site with an upload form. Not webform.
When we click on the "insert image" button we get alerted with "Component returned failure code: 0x80460001 (...
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How to manage ajax in nested forms?
As implied in this question, I'm adding a list of similar child forms to my parent form with the following code:
foreach ($form_state['items'] as $key => $item) {
$existing = NULL;
if (...
- 1,101
13
votes
2
answers
10k
views
Getting "The form has become outdated" error
I have a multistep node form.
Half way through the form through a popup dialog user is asked to login if they have not logged in prior.
Upon successful login when proceeding with next page of the ...
- 141
0
votes
1
answer
116
views
Why should we avoid theming forms with template files?
The issue was raised in this question. Why not exploit the advantages that template files offer in the case of forms?
- 1,101
1
vote
1
answer
780
views
How to handle ajax wrapper id for list of similar ajax forms?
Consider a Drupal 7 page with a list of same-type entity forms: formA, formB, formC. The entity form uses ajax to replace part of itself.
Is there an established way to manage the wrapper id's so ...
- 1,101
2
votes
2
answers
2k
views
Example of entity-within-entity subform processing
Suppose that, in Drupal 7, EntityA includes one or more instances of EntityB.
Is there an example of building the create/edit form for EntityA that includes one or more edit forms for EntityB, and ...
- 1,101
0
votes
1
answer
39
views
Given a form, how do I find the fields present in them?
How do I get the list of fields present in a certain form, I know the form id, I just need the names of the fields present in that form ?
user2948
0
votes
0
answers
352
views
How do I pass data from one form builder to another?
I have a page callback that does this:
// ...
$page['search'] = drupal_get_form('search_form');
// ...
$page['list'] = drupal_get_form('list_form');
// ...
return $page;
The first form builds a ...
- 162
2
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Need to force #default_value for AJAX tableselect checkboxes
I built a drop-down ajax pager that replaces a tableselect with the requested page of rows. The array of selected item IDs is stored in a hidden field and that logic is working across entity load/save ...
- 1,101
1
vote
5
answers
6k
views
ajax form submit multiple times
I have a form which consists of one submit button (Add to cart). I made it submit via AJAX but the problem is that when I press the button the second or third (and so on) times, the submit handler ...
- 3,072
0
votes
2
answers
581
views
Error in file_save()
I have a config page in my module were you can upload a file and change a few other settings. It works fine IF you do upload a new file when you click save however if you don't upload a file and just ...
- 91
2
votes
3
answers
959
views
Default value to drupal variable
I have a piece of code that I want to have the default value be a variable, but I need to know how to set a default value if the variable is not set:
$form['background_audio_height'] = array(
'#...
- 91
0
votes
2
answers
760
views
How do I get the $language object inside a form builder?
I have this necesity to use $language inside MY_MODULE_form($form, &$form_state) function and it seems is not available. I tried to define it as global, but it displays blank.
global $...
- 2,823
0
votes
1
answer
96
views
Remembering the address of the calling page of a form (Drupal 7)
I have created a little module that implements hook_menu and when the menu item is selected it displays a form that is defined as so:
function documentation_menu_nameform() {
$form['documentation']...
- 1,761