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Use it for questions about the Form API. Don't use it for entity or entity field forms.

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Setting the default value for a text field as a variable in Form API

I thought this would be straight forward but my lack of drupal knowledge is holing me back. I want to grab the email from the logged in user, and set it as the default value of the form. I can grab th …
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ahah helper populate dependent dropdown

I am using the ahah helper as I couldn't seem to get my dropdown lists to depend on each other anyother way in Drupal 6. Below is my code, I can hard code the changes so that the second dropdown popul …
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Adding html/css to a module form

How would I go about adding html/css into this module e.g. to place the different form items into a table, so i could have a column with one field entry the next column with another entry, and then ro …
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How to populate a dropdown list from array in FORM API

Hopefully this is clearer, and my last question in a long time! Using PDO I have connected to an external DB, I can query this and return an array of values, Using html/php I can populate a standard …
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Possible to pull the validate hook on forms not in form api

Is it possible to utilise the validate hook from within a node rather than a module? The code below works within a module calling a form with the form API. But if i was to have a variable in a node pa …
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Validation issue

The first validate function works fine, however the second doesn't. Is there something I'm missing / doing wrong. I want to get the basics of too many characters inputted or too few. Using Drupal 6. …
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Email Validation php

When validating an email address using the code below I get this error when i run the same code from within a drupal node, where I coded a form using php/html if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_E …
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How to use Form API

I was totally new to drupal, drupal modules (creating) and the form API. Here is the basics to getting a simple form loaded with the menu link. Note the credits go to @Clive. First of all I have a …
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How to use Form API

I'm new to drupal, and especially new to drupal form API. I see all the documentation which seems to make sense. They miss one key instruction that you need to create .module / .info files. I have cre …
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Connecting to multiple databases of different type for form submission [duplicate]

I know I can get around this problem by hard coding using php, html to create my forms that submit to this. I know from Drupal Community Documentation this is not possible as standard. … or do i continue coding my forms by hand for each node? …
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How to change the database drupal forms send to

It's super easy using php and SQL but how do you change the default database drupal 6 saves posted data in the forms? To an external database? …
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