[development] AHAH Questions

Austin Einter austin.einter at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 08:12:43 UTC 2011


Thanks Randy.
I will try to use those examples as a starting point.

Thanks
Austin

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Randy Fay <randy at randyfay.com> wrote:

> Please start your investigations using the AHAH Example in the
> Examples Project (http://drupal.org/project/examples) and
> http://randyfay.com/ahah. If you build a form starting with that
> foundation, then please come back for help at that point.
>
> Thanks,
> -Randy
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Austin Einter <austin.einter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All
> > I am quite new to AHAH, strugling to find how it works. I referred
> > documentation and poll module.
> > I want 3 fields in a fieldset, Company, Start-Date, End-Date.
> >
> > I have a button "Add More Company", if clicked, it should add a new row
> > having Company, Start-Date, End-Date dynamically.
> > How many times user clicks, those many rows needs to be added.
> >
> > To get the above mentioned form, I have put the code as below.
> > However, on button click, new rows are not adding up.
> >
> > Please help me to find whats the error with code.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Austin
> >
> > Code
> > ===============================================
> > <?php
> > function submitresume_menu() {
> >  $items = array();
> >  $items['submitresume/form'] = array(
> >  'title' => t('Submit Your Resume'),
> >  'page callback' => 'submitresume_form',
> >  'access arguments' => array('access content'),
> >  'description' => t('Submit Your Resume'),
> >  'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
> >  );
> >  $items['submitresume/form/morecompanies'] = array(
> >  'page callback' => 'submitresume_add_more_companies',
> >  'access arguments' => array('access content'),
> >  'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
> >  );
> >  return $items;
> > }
> > function submitresume_form() {
> >  return drupal_get_form('submitresume_my_form');
> > }
> > function submitresume_my_form($form_state) {
> >  $form = array('#cache' => TRUE,);
> >  if (isset($form_state['all_companies'])) {
> >   $all_companies = $form_state['all_companies'];
> >  }
> >  else {
> >   $all_companies = 1;
> >  }
> >  //Add a wrapper for the companies and add more button.
> >  $form['work_history_wrapper'] = array(
> >   '#title' => t("Work history: Mention all the companies you gave worked
> so
> > far"),
> >   '#type' => 'fieldset',
> >   '#collapsible' => TRUE,
> >   '#collapsed' => FALSE,
> >   '#prefix' => '<div class="clear-block" id="work-history-wrapper">',
> >   '#suffix' => '</div>',
> >  );
> >  //Container for just companies
> >  $form['work_history_wrapper']['allcompanies'] = array(
> >   '#prefix' => '<div id="all-companies">',
> >   '#suffix' => '</div>',
> >  );
> >  for ($delta = 0; $delta < $all_companies; $delta++)
> >  {
> >   //Need to do: Get the company name, start date and end date, pass it to
> > submitresume_add_one_company_form, so that it is shown properly
> >   $form['work_history_wrapper']['allcompanies'][$delta] =
> > submitresume_add_one_company_form($delta, $company_name, $compsdt,
> > $compedt);
> >  }
> >  $form['work_history_wrapper']['morecompany'] = array(
> >   '#type' => 'button',
> >   '#value' => t('Add More Companies'),
> >   '#weight' => 1,
> >   '#submit' => array('add_more_companies_submit'), // If no javascript
> > action.
> >   '#ahah' => array(
> >    'path' => 'submitresume/form/morecompanies',
> >    'wrapper' => 'all-companies',
> >    'method' => 'replace',
> >    'effect' => 'fade',
> >   ),
> >  );
> >
> > $form['submit'] = array(
> > '#type' => 'submit',
> > '#value' => 'Submit',
> > );
> > return $form;
> > }
> > function submitresume_add_one_company_form($delta, $company_name,
> $compsdt,
> > $compedt) {
> >  $form = array(
> >   '#tree' => TRUE,
> >  );
> >  $form['companies'] = array(
> >   '#type' => 'textfield',
> >   '#title' => t('Company')."-".$delta,
> >   '#parents' => array('allcompanies', $delta, 'companies'),
> >   '#size' => 30,
> >   '#maxlength' => 100,
> >  );
> >  $form['startdate'] = array(
> >   '#type' => 'date',
> >   '#title' => t('Start Date'),
> >   '#parents' => array('allcompanies', $delta, 'startdate'),
> >  );
> >  $form['enddate'] = array(
> >   '#type' => 'date',
> >   '#title' => t('End Date'),
> >   '#parents' => array('allcompanies', $delta, 'enddate'),
> >  );
> >  return $form;
> > }
> > function add_more_companies_submit($form, &$form_state) {
> >  // Set the form to rebuild and run submit handlers.
> >  node_form_submit_build_node($form, $form_state);
> >  // Make the changes we want to the form state.
> >  if ($form_state['values']['morecompany']) {
> >   $n = $_GET['q'] == 'submitresume/form/morecompanies' ? 1 : 5;
> >   $form_state['all_companies'] =
> > count($form_state['values']['allcompanies']) + $n;
> >  }
> > }
> > function  submitresume_add_more_companies() {
> >  include_once 'modules/node/node.pages.inc';
> >  $form_state = array('storage' => NULL, 'submitted' => FALSE);
> >  $form_build_id = $_POST['form_build_id'];
> >  // Get the form from the cache.
> >  $form = form_get_cache($form_build_id, $form_state);
> >  $args = $form['#parameters'];
> >  $form_id = array_shift($args);
> >  // We will run some of the submit handlers so we need to disable
> > redirecting.
> >  $form['#redirect'] = FALSE;
> >  // We need to process the form, prepare for that by setting a few
> internals
> >  // variables.
> >  $form['#post'] = $_POST;
> >  $form['#programmed'] = FALSE;
> >  $form_state['post'] = $_POST;
> >  // Build, validate and if possible, submit the form.
> >  drupal_process_form($form_id, $form, $form_state);
> >  // This call recreates the form relying solely on the form_state that
> the
> >  // drupal_process_form set up.
> >  $form = drupal_rebuild_form($form_id, $form_state, $args,
> $form_build_id);
> >  // Render the new output.
> >  $choice_form = $form['work_history_wrapper']['allcompanies'];
> >  unset($choice_form['#prefix'], $choice_form['#suffix']); // Prevent
> > duplicate wrappers.
> >  $output = theme('status_messages') . drupal_render($choice_form);
> >  drupal_json(array('status' => TRUE, 'data' => $output));
> > }
> > function submitresume_validate($form, &$form_state) {
> > }
> > function submitresume_submit($form, &$form_state) {
> > drupal_set_message(t('The form has been submitted.'));
> > }
> > ?>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Randy Fay
> Drupal Module and Site Development
> randy at randyfay.com
> +1  970.462.7450
>
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