I've been trying for two days to alter the form on one of the user profile edit tabs, but to no avail. It just seems to ignore my hook_form_alter function all together. Here is the simple test that I have been trying (if I could get the thing to listen to me I would add more), which I have added to my template.php file:

function user_edit_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
    if ($form_id == 'user_edit') {
        if (isset($form['Personal'])) {
            $form['Resume']['test'] = array('#type' => 'checkbox',
                '#title' => check_plain('Test'),
                '#default_value' => "",
                '#description' => 'Tick me',
                '#required' => '',
            );
        }
    }
}

I've also placed the function in other locations, such as directly before and after the function profile_user_profile(), but that had no effect. I've also tried renaming the function, things like my_form_alter(), profile_user_profile_form_alter(), and other variations, but that seems to have no effect either.

Does anyone have any experience with doing this?

Thanks,
Chris

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maartenvg’s picture

maartenvg commented

Someone else was having the same problem. Here, http://drupal.org/node/151931#comment-242663, you find some pointers to a solution.
You're supposed to create new tiny module, make a proper hook_alter_form() to add your checkbox and add a submit callback for it.

Another (and easier) way would be to use hook_user in a tiny module with the 'form' operator. That way the value of the checkbox will end up in the $user object, which you then can use elsewhere. (see http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_user/4.7)

For example something like this:

yourmodule_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) { 
  if ($op == 'form' && $category ='your_category') {
    $form['Resume']['test'] = array('#type' => 'checkbox',
                '#title' => check_plain('Test'),
                '#default_value' => "",
                '#description' => 'Tick me',
                '#required' => '',
            );
  }
}
ricabrantes’s picture

ricabrantes commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

issue resolved, Closed..