On Feb 7, 2008 9:24 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:49:12 -0600 Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
It certainly could. You could easily theme a table and then stick the rendered result in a markup form value, and you're done.
It has nothing to do with Views, really. The Theme Wizard is just an example of it that I remember writing.
Thanks.
Emanuele Quinto wrote me about a similar solution for D6 and finally I had the chance to see View Wizard.
I find this solution convoluted.
At a first sight furthermore putting stuff in #markup will end up in stuff being nested in <form>.
Using form '#prefix' or '#suffix' you can solve this plain html outside of <form> tag.
Anyway this approach incur in another problem... what if your form is in an area and your results have to be displayed in another and you still need the form?
On the _validate you can do whatever you want: save values with set_variable or global variable (I know, I know...) or in a table. In principle you don't have to wait the _submit.
At the end of drupal_get_form $form_values/status should be fully populated[1] so you could access it through such a global...
$form_status['values'] is populated (in D6): * if you set $form_status['rebuild'] (in _validate) * if you set some value in $form_status['storage'] They are available in a _form_alter hook where you can change the apparence of the form. You can also use #pre_render (http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/examples/multipage_form_example.mod...): The #pre_render of a form allows us to make changes AFTER validation (unlike hook_form_alter()), but BEFORE the form has actually been displayed. We use it to control which form elements are shown, which are hidden, and which values to set based on... ema -- Emanuele Quinto - www.kronstadt.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My mother used to say to me, "Elwood" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant." For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant, and you may quote me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------