Form generation in Drupal 6
Same name and namespace in other branches
- 8 core/core.api.php \form_api
- 7 includes/form.inc \form_api
- 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
Name |
Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date_validate |
includes/ |
Validates the date type to stop dates like February 30, 2006. |
| drupal_execute |
includes/ |
Retrieves, populates, and processes a form. |
| drupal_get_form |
includes/ |
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/ |
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/ |
This function is the heart of form API. The form gets built, validated and in appropriate cases, submitted. |
| drupal_rebuild_form |
includes/ |
Retrieves a form, caches it and processes it with an empty $_POST. |
| drupal_redirect_form |
includes/ |
Redirect the user to a URL after a form has been processed. |
| drupal_render_form |
includes/ |
Renders a structured form array into themed HTML. |
| drupal_retrieve_form |
includes/ |
Retrieves the structured array that defines a given form. |
| drupal_validate_form |
includes/ |
Validates user-submitted form data from the $form_state using the validate functions defined in a structured form array. |
| expand_checkboxes |
includes/ |
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| expand_date |
includes/ |
Roll out a single date element. |
| expand_password_confirm |
includes/ |
Expand a password_confirm field into two text boxes. |
| expand_radios |
includes/ |
Roll out a single radios element to a list of radios, using the options array as index. |
| form_builder |
includes/ |
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/ |
Maintain a map of immutable form_build_ids to cloned form. |
| form_clean_id |
includes/ |
Prepare an HTML ID attribute string for a form item. |
| form_error |
includes/ |
Flag an element as having an error. |
| form_execute_handlers |
includes/ |
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/ |
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/ |
Fetch a form from cache. |
| form_get_error |
includes/ |
Return the error message filed against the form with the specified name. |
| form_get_errors |
includes/ |
Return an associative array of all errors. |
| form_get_options |
includes/ |
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/ |
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| form_process_autocomplete |
includes/ |
Process function to prepare autocomplete data. |
| form_select_options |
includes/ |
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| form_set_cache |
includes/ |
Store a form in the cache. |
| form_set_error |
includes/ |
File an error against a form element. |
| form_set_value |
includes/ |
Change submitted form values during the form processing cycle. |
| form_type_checkboxes_value |
includes/ |
Helper function to determine the value for a checkboxes form element. |
| form_type_checkbox_value |
includes/ |
Helper function to determine the value for a checkbox form element. |
| form_type_image_button_value |
includes/ |
Helper function to determine the value for an image button form element. |
| form_type_password_confirm_value |
includes/ |
Helper function to determine the value for a password_confirm form element. |
| form_type_select_value |
includes/ |
Helper function to determine the value for a select form element. |
| form_type_textfield_value |
includes/ |
Helper function to determine the value for a textfield form element. |
| form_type_token_value |
includes/ |
Helper function to determine the value for form's token value. |
| map_month |
includes/ |
Helper function for usage with drupal_map_assoc to display month names. |
| password_confirm_validate |
includes/ |
Validate password_confirm element. |
| process_weight |
includes/ |
Expand weight elements into selects. |
| theme_button |
includes/ |
Theme a form button. |
| theme_checkbox |
includes/ |
Format a checkbox. |
| theme_checkboxes |
includes/ |
Format a set of checkboxes. |
| theme_date |
includes/ |
Format a date selection element. |
| theme_fieldset |
includes/ |
Format a group of form items. |
| theme_file |
includes/ |
Format a file upload field. |
| theme_form |
includes/ |
Format a form. |
| theme_form_element |
includes/ |
Return a themed form element. |
| theme_hidden |
includes/ |
Format a hidden form field. |
| theme_image_button |
includes/ |
Theme a form image button. |
| theme_item |
includes/ |
Format a form item. |
| theme_markup |
includes/ |
Format HTML markup for use in forms. |
| theme_password |
includes/ |
Format a password field. |
| theme_password_confirm |
includes/ |
Format a password_confirm item. |
| theme_radio |
includes/ |
Format a radio button. |
| theme_radios |
includes/ |
Format a set of radio buttons. |
| theme_select |
includes/ |
Format a dropdown menu or scrolling selection box. |
| theme_submit |
includes/ |
Theme a form submit button. |
| theme_textarea |
includes/ |
Format a textarea. |
| theme_textfield |
includes/ |
Format a textfield. |
| theme_token |
includes/ |
Format a form token. |
| weight_value |
includes/ |
If no default value is set for weight select boxes, use 0. |
| _element_info |
includes/ |
Retrieve the default properties for the defined element type. |
| _form_builder_handle_input_element |
includes/ |
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/ |
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/ |
Helper function to handle the sometimes-convoluted logic of button click detection. |
| _form_set_class |
includes/ |
Sets a form element's class attribute. |
| _form_set_value |
includes/ |
Helper function for form_set_value(). |
| _form_validate |
includes/ |
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. |