Form Alterations
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This document discusses how to alter forms in Drupal without directly editing code. It recommends using the Devel module to inspect forms and building a custom module to modify form elements as needed. Specific reasons given for altering forms include adding custom functionality, controlling appearance, and increasing efficiency. The presenter demonstrates altering a form and provides further reading links on the Form API and modifying forms in Drupal.
Form Alterations
- 1. Form Alterations - Getting What You Want in Drupal Without Hacking Presented by Mark W. Jarrell Drupal/Twitter username: attheshow June 28, 2009 Http://fleetthought.com Sunday, June 28, 2009
- 2. What are we talking about? ✤ This is a “how to” session ✤ Modify form elements in Drupal created by either core modules or contributed modules you’ve installed Sunday, June 28, 2009
- 3. Why do we need to alter forms? ✤ Custom functionality for our sites ✤ Gives us more control over how things appear in our forms ✤ Can be used to increase efficiency for users entering things into Drupal’s forms ✤ Example: Prepopulating the domain part of the email address for our admin who’s adding new users. Sunday, June 28, 2009
- 4. Why not just hack it? ✤ Maintaining something that’s hacked is difficult. ✤ When you upgrade, you may lose your changes. ✤ Other community members can help you because your system conforms to Drupal standards. Sunday, June 28, 2009
- 5. What do we need to make it happen? ✤ Devel module http://drupal.org/project/devel ✤ Gives us a great function for inspecting forms (dsm()) ✤ Build a custom module ✤ We’ll call ours “dcc09” Sunday, June 28, 2009
- 6. Demo Sunday, June 28, 2009
- 7. Further Reading Links ✤ “Modifying Forms in Drupal 5 and 6” http://www.lullabot.com/articles/modifying-forms-5-and-6 ✤ hook_form_alter() function http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_form_alter/6 ✤ The D6 Form API (a.k.a. FAPI) quickstart http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/topics/forms_api.html/6 ✤ Form API reference http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/topics/ forms_api_reference.html/6 Photo On Intro Slide: Http://is.gd/17yFt Sunday, June 28, 2009