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Form generation in Drupal 6

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 8 core/core.api.php \form_api
  2. 7 includes/form.inc \form_api
  3. 9 core/core.api.php \form_api

Functions to enable the processing and display of HTML forms.

Drupal uses these functions to achieve consistency in its form processing and presentation, while simplifying code and reducing the amount of HTML that must be explicitly generated by modules.

The drupal_get_form() function handles retrieving, processing, and displaying a rendered HTML form for modules automatically. For example:

// Display the user registration form.
$output = drupal_get_form('user_register');

Forms can also be built and submitted programmatically without any user input using the drupal_execute() function.

For information on the format of the structured arrays used to define forms, and more detailed explanations of the Form API workflow, see the reference and the Form API guide.

File

includes/form.inc, line 22

Functions

Namesort descending Location Description
date_validate includes/form.inc Validates the date type to stop dates like February 30, 2006.
drupal_execute includes/form.inc Retrieves, populates, and processes a form.
drupal_get_form includes/form.inc Retrieves a form from a constructor function, or from the cache if the form was built in a previous page-load. The form is then passed on for processing, after and rendered for display if necessary.
drupal_prepare_form includes/form.inc Prepares a structured form array by adding required elements, executing any hook_form_alter functions, and optionally inserting a validation token to prevent tampering.
drupal_process_form includes/form.inc This function is the heart of form API. The form gets built, validated and in appropriate cases, submitted.
drupal_rebuild_form includes/form.inc Retrieves a form, caches it and processes it with an empty $_POST.
drupal_redirect_form includes/form.inc Redirect the user to a URL after a form has been processed.
drupal_render_form includes/form.inc Renders a structured form array into themed HTML.
drupal_retrieve_form includes/form.inc Retrieves the structured array that defines a given form.
drupal_validate_form includes/form.inc Validates user-submitted form data from the $form_state using the validate functions defined in a structured form array.
expand_checkboxes includes/form.inc
expand_date includes/form.inc Roll out a single date element.
expand_password_confirm includes/form.inc Expand a password_confirm field into two text boxes.
expand_radios includes/form.inc Roll out a single radios element to a list of radios, using the options array as index.
form_builder includes/form.inc Walk through the structured form array, adding any required properties to each element and mapping the incoming $_POST data to the proper elements.
form_build_id_map includes/form.inc Maintain a map of immutable form_build_ids to cloned form.
form_clean_id includes/form.inc Prepare an HTML ID attribute string for a form item.
form_error includes/form.inc Flag an element as having an error.
form_execute_handlers includes/form.inc A helper function used to execute custom validation and submission handlers for a given form. Button-specific handlers are checked first. If none exist, the function falls back to form-level handlers.
form_expand_ahah includes/form.inc Add AHAH information about a form element to the page to communicate with javascript. If #ahah[path] is set on an element, this additional javascript is added to the page header to attach the AHAH behaviors. See ahah.js for more information.
form_get_cache includes/form.inc Fetch a form from cache.
form_get_error includes/form.inc Return the error message filed against the form with the specified name.
form_get_errors includes/form.inc Return an associative array of all errors.
form_get_options includes/form.inc Traverses a select element's #option array looking for any values that hold the given key. Returns an array of indexes that match.
form_options_flatten includes/form.inc
form_process_autocomplete includes/form.inc Process function to prepare autocomplete data.
form_select_options includes/form.inc
form_set_cache includes/form.inc Store a form in the cache.
form_set_error includes/form.inc File an error against a form element.
form_set_value includes/form.inc Change submitted form values during the form processing cycle.
form_type_checkboxes_value includes/form.inc Helper function to determine the value for a checkboxes form element.
form_type_checkbox_value includes/form.inc Helper function to determine the value for a checkbox form element.
form_type_image_button_value includes/form.inc Helper function to determine the value for an image button form element.
form_type_password_confirm_value includes/form.inc Helper function to determine the value for a password_confirm form element.
form_type_select_value includes/form.inc Helper function to determine the value for a select form element.
form_type_textfield_value includes/form.inc Helper function to determine the value for a textfield form element.
form_type_token_value includes/form.inc Helper function to determine the value for form's token value.
map_month includes/form.inc Helper function for usage with drupal_map_assoc to display month names.
password_confirm_validate includes/form.inc Validate password_confirm element.
process_weight includes/form.inc Expand weight elements into selects.
theme_button includes/form.inc Theme a form button.
theme_checkbox includes/form.inc Format a checkbox.
theme_checkboxes includes/form.inc Format a set of checkboxes.
theme_date includes/form.inc Format a date selection element.
theme_fieldset includes/form.inc Format a group of form items.
theme_file includes/form.inc Format a file upload field.
theme_form includes/form.inc Format a form.
theme_form_element includes/form.inc Return a themed form element.
theme_hidden includes/form.inc Format a hidden form field.
theme_image_button includes/form.inc Theme a form image button.
theme_item includes/form.inc Format a form item.
theme_markup includes/form.inc Format HTML markup for use in forms.
theme_password includes/form.inc Format a password field.
theme_password_confirm includes/form.inc Format a password_confirm item.
theme_radio includes/form.inc Format a radio button.
theme_radios includes/form.inc Format a set of radio buttons.
theme_select includes/form.inc Format a dropdown menu or scrolling selection box.
theme_submit includes/form.inc Theme a form submit button.
theme_textarea includes/form.inc Format a textarea.
theme_textfield includes/form.inc Format a textfield.
theme_token includes/form.inc Format a form token.
weight_value includes/form.inc If no default value is set for weight select boxes, use 0.
_element_info includes/form.inc Retrieve the default properties for the defined element type.
_form_builder_handle_input_element includes/form.inc Populate the #value and #name properties of input elements so they can be processed and rendered. Also, execute any #process handlers attached to a specific element.
_form_builder_ie_cleanup includes/form.inc In IE, if only one submit button is present, AND the enter key is used to submit the form, no form value is sent for it and our normal button detection code will never detect a match. We call this function after all other button-detection is complete…
_form_button_was_clicked includes/form.inc Helper function to handle the sometimes-convoluted logic of button click detection.
_form_set_class includes/form.inc Sets a form element's class attribute.
_form_set_value includes/form.inc Helper function for form_set_value().
_form_validate includes/form.inc Performs validation on form elements. First ensures required fields are completed, #maxlength is not exceeded, and selected options were in the list of options given to the user. Then calls user-defined validators.