Setting a destination page for a form post

Posted by steveadamo on March 12, 2009 at 7:11pm

Hi all,

Just a quick question about form posting. If I wanted the front page of my site to effectively be a nicely themed form (users will input one field and submit), can I setup the form such that it posts to another (result) page?

I realize thats entirely possible from an HTML/PHP perspective, so I suppose my question is can I accomplish this with a "form builder", or will I have to create a custom PHP block, or?

Thanks,
steve

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I've had no luck in my

Posted by steveadamo on March 13, 2009 at 2:52pm

I've had no luck in my attempts. Should I look into the form builder module? I'm not even sure what functionality it provides, I just referenced it in my initial post as it sounded like a potential option.

There has to be a way to have a page I've created (from a View) that shows no results by default, offers an exposed form field to search for results, and have the matching result set appear on a new page (as opposed to the page with the form). Yes? No?

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My latest theory was to

Posted by steveadamo on March 16, 2009 at 3:07am

My latest theory was to incorporate an "ajaxed" form, and have the front page results show up just below the form...

but i would much rather have the form be on the "home" page, and when submitted, have the results display on a child page... any ideas, suggestions?

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Have you tried webform? It

Posted by Alan D. on March 16, 2009 at 8:32am

Have you tried webform? It can be themed to almost any design and automatically adds data collection / email notification and a thank you page, either standard content or a redirect.

Once created, set the front page to be this page in admin > site information

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Thanks Alan, I'll take a look

Posted by steveadamo on March 16, 2009 at 3:20pm

Thanks Alan, I'll take a look right now! :)

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For the curious, I think this

Posted by steveadamo on March 18, 2009 at 7:16pm

For the curious, I think this is more in line with what I was looking for. I havent had a chance to test the module yet, but from the description, it seems to address my scenario.

- create a form (my custom front page)
- set the destination for form submission to be a custom view (results of the form submission)

http://drupal.org/project/customdestination

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If you have a custom form via

Posted by Alan D. on March 19, 2009 at 2:48am

If you have a custom form via the FAPI, just set #redirect = 'xxx'. A quick search of the forums/api will provide the syntax

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