Adding extra validation to the register form

By mortenson on 3 Jun 2008 at 03:41 UTC

Hello I am trying to validate the field "profile_rut" from the "Personal" category. With a module I build called "sitehelper"

function sitehelper_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
if ($form_id == 'user_register' || $form_id == 'user_edit') {
$form['Personal']['profile_rut']['#validate'] = array('formvalidate_rut' => array());
}
}

function formvalidate_rut($element) {
if ($element['#value'] == "123") {
form_set_error('profile_rut', t('RUT is invalid'));
}
}

Have tried this code and many modifications for long time, but cant make it work.
What I am doing wrong?

Comments

Drupal 6?

Chill35 commented 3 June 2008 at 19:58

Is this a Drupal 6 question?

Caroline

11 heavens.com

Yes it is :)

mortenson commented 4 June 2008 at 02:50

Yes it is :)

Hope this will be helpful

Chill35 commented 4 June 2008 at 04:23

In Drupal 6, HOOK_form_alter takes 3 arguments [1], and to add validation to an element once must use '#element_validate' [2].

function sitehelper_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'user_register' || $form_id == 'user_edit') {
    $form['Personal']['profile_rut']['#element_validate'] = array('_sitehelper_profile_rut_validate');
  }
}

function _sitehelper_profile_rut_validate($form, &$form_state) {
  if ($form_state['values']['profile_rut'] == "123") {
    form_set_error('profile_rut', t('RUT is invalid'));
  }
}

The way element validation is handled varries through Drupal core. Looking for examples, I did not find consistency.
The above validation should work.

[1] http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_form_alter/6
[2] http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/topics/forms_api_reference.html...

Caroline

11 heavens.com