[development] FAPI and _display hook

[Larry Garfield]

It certainly could.  You could easily theme a table and then stick the rendered result in a markup form value, and you're done.

It has nothing to do with Views, really.  The Theme Wizard is just an example of it that I remember writing.  

--Larry Garfield

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:08:31 +0200, Graeme McKibbin <gmckibbin at iburst.co.za> wrote:
> Ok thanks...
> But does that include building a SELECT query in php and displaying
> the results in a table?
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> (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
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06 Feb 2008, at 8:59 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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