[development] fixing nodeapi : programmatically submitting forms.

[Neil Drumm]

Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> 1 ) introduce a hook_forms. which registers each of the forms on the site.
> 2 ) register all the forms, and their inputs and create callbacks for them

What would this list be used for?

> 3 ) put the form creation code into it's own function, with the
> registered callback

Maybe in it's own file too, along with ..._validate, ..._submit, etc.
Less code to include up front. Something along the lines of
path_to_module/forms/form_id.form.php would get auto-included.

> 4) alter fapi to not use _POST at all. Instead use a parameter that is
> passed to it, which merely defaults to _POST.

Would the form creation code need to set #value itself then?

> function mymodule_forms() {
>    $form['mymodule/form_id'] = array(
>         'callback' => 'mymodule_form_id',
>         'access' => user_access('can do form_id'),

Shouldn't this be handled in ..._validate() or hook_menu()?

>         'title' => 'form title'

What would the title do?

>    );
> }
> 
> function mymodule_form_id($input) {

I would go ahead and put _form on the end of that function name.

>    $form['title'] = array(
>         /*
>          generate your form array here
>       */
>   );
>   return $form;
> }
> 
> function mymodule_page_callback() {
>   // get your form input ready
>   return drupal_get_form('mymodule/form_id', array('input' => 'object'));
> }

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