By mpapet on

The main goal of my module is to add some extra information in the user's admin form.

The following code generates a modified user edit form, www.mydomain.com/user/1/edit. There is an action that's fired when a user edits their account info. I want to pass $form['cg_first_name'] to my action. As the action is written, the form data is not passed.

How do I access my form value?

function cg_volunteer_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {

  if ($form['#id'] == 'user-profile-form' || $form['#id'] == 'user_profile_form') {

   $form['cg_first_name'] = array(
    '#prefix' => '<div id = "one_row"><div id = "one_cell">',
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => t('First Name'),
    '#maxlength' => 50,
    );
  }
};

function cg_volunteer_update_contact_action ($form, &$form_state) {
//global $user;
$test_val = $form_state['values']['cg_first_name'];
watchdog('cg_volunteer', 'cg insert might have happened. %stumpy', array('%stumpy' => $test_val), WATCHDOG_NOTICE, $link = NULL);
}
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Anonymous (not verified) commented

You just need to add your action function to the form's submit array in hook_form_alter(). Just add this line after you declare $form['cg_first_name']:

$form['#submit'][] = 'cg_volunteer_update_contact_action';

That should do it

mpapet’s picture

mpapet commented

In theory, that API called named almost anything should work. In practice, on the user/1/edit page that does not work.

That's why I'm using an action to fire off my routine. The action function is called, but I have no reference to form data. I *NEED* the form data from my example.

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

Maybe I'm not understanding the problem, but I've just put your code into a module, added the submission handler to the form as I suggested and it works absolutely fine. I visit user/1/edit and the First Name field is there, and in the cg_update_volunteer_update_action function I print out the $form_state['values'] array which contains cg_first_name as a key. The value in cg_first_name is the correct value that was submitted in the form.

If I've misunderstood let me know and I'll try to help further

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mpapet commented

Thanks for checking that. There's got to be something wrong with my drupal installation then because it doesn't work for me.

I'll start over and see if I can repeat the error.