[development] Forms API "Widgets", AJAX and non-JavaScript

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Rob Thorne wrote:
> I've done a couple of projects that needed custom "widgets" to use 
> within Forms API, something that you might write into code with 
> something like....
> 
>    $form['some_text'] = array('#type' => 'textfield', ....);
>    $form['event_date'] = drupal_widget_date($title, $default,
>    $options....);
>    ...

Are you maybe looking for hook_elements?

Then you could do:

$form['event_date'] = array('#type' => 'my_date', ...);


Cheers,
	Gerhard