You also might into using Ctools object caching (or even the Ctools form wizard API) to assist with temporary caching. http://drupal.org/project/ctools
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.comwrote:
I have a custom module with a form and it works fine with multistep--I found a tutorial somewhere how to do that.
But I need it to be filtered by the user and paged. Just like the admin/content page we all know and love.
I see that the pager links do not contain the filter settings--they are just ?page=7 etc. I found in node.admin.inc that the filters are kept constant by inserting them into $_SESSION and then referencing them later.
Is that the way to do it? I'm confused because in D6 my pager links would end with :
?page=4&begin_date[month]=5&begin_date[day]=27&begin_date[year]=1993 etc.
IE the filter settings were in the URL. Is there something I am missing to get that to work?
While I'm here I will mention that in D6 I used this:
$form['searchparams']['begin_date'] = array( '#type' => 'date', '#title' => 'Begin Date', '#default_value' => $form['post']['begin_date'] );
to get my filters to remain after the submit. I changed one line:
'#default_value' => $form_state['input']['end_date'],
for D7 and it works. Is that the right way?
Any light you can shed on this topic is appreciated. I have been Googling and reading but a push in the right direction would help--this is my first foray into D7 FAPI. :)
Thanks!
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