Setting a destination page for a form post

steveadamo - March 12, 2009 - 19:11

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

steveadamo - March 13, 2009 - 14:52

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?

My latest theory was to

steveadamo - March 16, 2009 - 03:07

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?

Have you tried webform? It

Alan D. - March 16, 2009 - 08:32

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

Alan Davison
www.caignwebs.com.au

Thanks Alan, I'll take a look

steveadamo - March 16, 2009 - 15:20

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

For the curious, I think this

steveadamo - March 18, 2009 - 19:16

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

If you have a custom form via

Alan D. - March 19, 2009 - 02:48

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