[development] FAPI and _display hook

[Larry Garfield]

Have a look at the Views Theme Wizard.  In recent versions, it is a multi-step form that uses the values from step 1 to generate form step 2.  Step 2 (or sometimes step 3) has no submit buttons on it, but its content is the result of the previous steps.  The last step then is the display, and there's no reason why you can't use form fields of #type markup to show just HTML that was built off of the previous steps.

--Larry Garfield

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:53:47 +0200, Graeme McKibbin <gmckibbin at iburst.co.za> wrote:
> Not sure if I'm on the same page as you, but I need to have a form
> that has some input fields and a submit button, and when it's
> clicked, the form passes the input to itself (or another page) and
> then displays a table of results from a query (that I've created).
> Any idea?
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> On 06 Feb 2008, at 8:59 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
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>> Maybe there is a clean way to recycle most of FAPI if you don't need
>> to save anything in _submit but if you'd just like to produce some
>> output based on form input?
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>> eg. you've 2 fields and the form "landing" page should display the
>> product (the landing page may still be the form path itself).
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>> If there is such a technique that let you intercept $form_values and
>> $form_id outside _submit _validate and display output accordingly I'd
>> be glad to know.
>>
>> Otherwise I'd really enjoy to see a _display hook that in spite of
>> showing the form or redirecting somewhere else would just have access
>> to $form_id  and $form_values as _validate and _submit but would
>> output something else other than the form.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
>> http://www.webthatworks.it
>>
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> Kind Regards
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> Graeme McKibbin
> Software Developer
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