By ckee on

I have a user/register page for an installation that has profiles enabled. The default behavior displays the "extra" profile fieldset first, and the "Account information" fieldset second. How can I flip the order in which the fieldsets are displayed? I suspect part of my problem is that I don't fully understand how the fieldsets are represented within the form API.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or pointers.

Clark Kee

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ckee commented

Loading the Devel and Form Inspect modules provided some insight. It looks like I could alter the fieldset display order by adding/manipulating a #weight parameter to the 'account' fieldset.

C.

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ckee commented

Found this discussion in the Module development forum: http://drupal.org/node/111925
with a couple pithy but correct suggestions: use the #weight parameter, and "write your own module and use hook_form_alter."

See also hiveminds hook_form_alter tutorial page.

With that info, and the form structure as revealed by Heine's Form Inspect module, I created a bare-bones module with only the functionality to allow it to be enabled, and a hook_form_alter for the form user_register.

function user_register_alter_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
  if ($form_id == 'user_register') {
    $form['account']['#weight'] = -5;
  }
}

The verbose but self-documenting module name is user_register_alter -- hence the redundant-sounding function name.

What is implicit in the links cited above, and is no doubt obvious to drupal cognoscenti, but was not to me: with this technique it is only necessary to enable the module with the hook_form_alter for the alteration to take effect.

C.