Hi again Lee, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Lee Rowlands <leerowlands@rowlands-bcs.com> wrote:
Have you given thought to adding a '#theme' attribute to the form in hook_form_alter
I'd looked at, but, tbh, I'm not at a point yet where I've 'internalized' this enough to make a sound decision. Seems that there's almost _always_ another way to do it ;-) I'm bouncing around from doc snippet to doc snippet, generally getting each one working relatively quickly & easily. That's good. Trying to stitch this all together is proving challenging so far ... waiting for the 'lightning bolt'! I'll share the overall context of what I'm trying to achieve here -- and ask for comment as to approach. Here we go: I want to change the process workflow of form submission & user auth, using, as much as possible, available core tech'y & modules. Using 'Search' as an example action: I've 3 user roles, Anonymous VerifiedHuman RegisteredMember On front page, display search bar/box any/ALL users @ text entry & Submit of search, interrupt/redirect BEFORE submitting to search backend, 'store' original search criteria check logged in state (1) if LoggedIn as RegisteredMember push original Search to search backend present search results include advanced_search option to modify/filter/resubmit search in search result form. (2) if LoggedIn as VerifiedHuman display selector (a) LogIn as RegisteredMember continue @ (1) (b) Create new Account exit search to launch (User Reg) process (c) Continue as VerifiedHuman present simple/unmodifiable search results (3) if !LoggedIn, currently Anonymous display selector (a) exit to home page (b) display/submit (re)Captcha (i) if success continue @ (2) (ii) if fail >= 3x ban IP from Search form access for 180 min. exit to home page To get 'this' done, I'm hoping to leverage as much as possible of core's user.module & contrib'd Captcha.module. I've also started looking at core's Trigger, and contrib Rules.module -- but am not convinced they're helpful, or not. So, that said -- is your suggestion of '#theme' still a good approach? In the meantime, I'll dig @ http://drupal.org/node/751826. Thanks! Ben