This message might be better for the development list rather than the support list.
Would crafting the entire form as a single multi-step work for you? Consider this example: http://www.benjeavons.com/multi-step-forms-drupal-6-using-variable-functions
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Doug doug.duboulay@gmail.com wrote:
Writing a D6 module. I'm trying to build a lengthy form, where at some point, towards the bottom of the form, it would be nice to (1) optionally hit an 'incomplete'/branch submit handler, (2) cache the interim curent form state, (3) double redirect to a new form (create submit ) etc (4) bounce back to the original (with second redirect), (5) reload interim state from the cache, (6) amend with new details gleaned from the intermediate/branch form, (7) finally proceed to the "complete" form submit handler of original form
Currently I can double redirect to a second form, but on bounce back, all the original details are lost, which is really unintuitive to the user, who thinks they've already filled out that part.
I guess I need to do something like this:
function mymodule_interim_submit($form, &$form_state) { $form_build_id = $form_state['values]['form_build_id']; unset($form_state['submitted']); unset($form_state['storage']); // $form_state['rebuild'] = FALSE; $form_state['saved']= $form_state['values]; $form_state['redirect'] = array ( // double redirect 'mymodule/intermediate_form', 'mymodule/this_form/' . $form_build_id ); }
But I don't know if thats sufficient to preserve the interim state of the form, or will it still be deleted from the cache after the interim_submit completes, or ...(barking up wrong tree)?
thanks Doug -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]