By maen on

Hello at all,

I need a bit advise to create my first module...

Goal: insert nodes with an additional formular, made by myself. It's a first step for me. What I did:
I use the example.module and crated with this source the following code:

function test_menu() {
  $items = array();
  $items['test/form'] = array(
    'title' => t('My form'),
    'page callback' => 'test_form',
    'access arguments' => array('access content'),
    'description' => t('My form'),
    'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
  );
  return $items;
}

function test_form() {
  return drupal_get_form('test_my_form');
}

function test_my_form($form_state) {
  
    // This is the first form element. It's a textfield with a label, "Name"
$form['title'] = array(
      '#type' => 'textfield',
      '#title' => check_plain($type->title_label),
      '#required' => TRUE,
      '#default_value' => $node->title,
      '#weight' => -5
    );
  //// Adds a simple submit button that refreshes the form and clears its
  //contents -- this is the default behavior for forms.
  $form['submit'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#value' => 'Submit',
  );
  return $form;
}
function test_insert($node) {
  db_query("INSERT INTO {node} (vid, nid) VALUES (%d, %d)", $node->vid, $node->nid);
}

With firebug I see as post:

form_build_id form-f0e679c0f42012048763a185f2ca7987
form_id test_my_form
form_token 7228d9756aa80afaa41314333f1ae19c
op Submit
title egal
title=egal&op=Submit&form_build_id=form-f0e679c0f42012048763a185f2ca7987&form_token=7228d9756aa80afaa41314333f1ae19c&form_id=test_my_form

But no insert in DB. So can anybody please explain what I do wrong?

Thx in advance,

maen

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

First off, you are getting yourself in trouble, you should not be manipulating the node table directly. It is better to use node_save().

What is you actual goal here, the code mostly suggests a custom form (not a node) but saving to the node table suggests a custom content type. For the later using the UI is a simpler choice, and if using code there is an API that should be followed.

maen’s picture

maen commented

I want a possibility to manipulate some fields from a node by clicking the field (I use custom php for these fields) in views. With this click, a popup shall open with a form that loads the node object from the source that was clicked. The form itself shows only two fields, the title (static value prefilled) and a cck field (prefilled but overwritable) which was clicked.

Now, although I' ve been using drupal since a long time, I want to write my first own module. So in my first step, I try to do some basics by writing a form to insert a node. Then when I understand how it works I want to learn how it is possible to load a node in a from and update the node. Then I want to use AHAH and jquery or anything like this to manipulate forms to transfer automatically transfer values from a CCK field 1 to a CCK field 2, update the node and close the pop-up form by clicking on save. After that I reached two goals: a basic understanding of drupal, jquery and ajax and a fundament to provide individual dashlets for authors and moderators, which could be useful in many perspectives.

I don't want to use editview or something like this because I also want to learn drupal.

Thx,

maen