[development] FAPI and _display hook

[Oleg Terenchuk]

I believe this discussion is more suited for http://drupal.org/forum

On 2/6/08, Graeme McKibbin <gmckibbin at iburst.co.za> wrote:
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> Ok thanks...
> But does that include building a SELECT query in php and displaying the
> results in a table?
>
> (The reason I want to do that is because the Inventory field does not
> appear in the Views field list)
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> On 06 Feb 2008, at 10:58 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
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> 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
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> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:53:47 +0200, Graeme McKibbin <gmckibbin at iburst.co.za>
> wrote:
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> 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?
>
> eg. you've 2 fields and the form "landing" page should display the
> product (the landing page may still be the form path itself).
>
> 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
>
> Graeme McKibbin
> Software Developer
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Oleg Terenchuk
Web Manager / Developer
Phone: 917 - 306 - 5653
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