By mpapet on

I'm a newbie that is taking a crack at his first module.

I need to fire off a function that inserts some data from a customized form into a table.

I've got the form built. What isn't clear to me is how to fire off a function to save a fivestar rating with the 'preview' or 'save' buttons. I have a feeling I don't have the 'rateit' portion of the form stored in a variable for my rating either. See below for my simple form. 

function review_content_type_form(&$node) {
        $type = node_get_types('type', $node);

  // We need to define form elements for the node's title and body.
  $form['title'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => check_plain($type->title_label),
    '#required' => TRUE,
    '#default_value' => $node->title,
    '#weight' => -5
  );
    $form['body'] = array (
        '#type' => 'textarea',
        '#title' => check_plain($type->body_label),
        '#default_value' => $node->body,
        '#required' => TRUE
  );
   $form['rateit'] = array (
        '#title' => t('Rate this thing!'),
        '#type' => 'fivestar',
        '#stars' => 5,
 );


$form ['body_filter']['filter'] = filter_form($node->format);

 return $form;
}

Any help would be great.

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mpapet commented

More info:

Steps to reproduce the problem.

I've got a new content type that adds a fivestar widget to the bottom of a story so the author can write a review. My clever module works up until preview.
1. I see the new content type inside the site menu, I can click on it and it renders my nice new form with the fivestar widget on the bottom.
2. I enter a title, some text in the body and click 5/5 stars.
3. Clicking on preview, the 5/5 stars is not rendered in the preview and my best guess at passing the score stored in the 'new' review to the 'preview' is adding a variable declaration to the item. But this variable is null if I attempt to write a custom preview.

   $form['vote'] = array (
        '#title' => t('Rate this thing!'),
        '#type' => 'fivestar',
        '#stars' => 5,
       '#default_value' => $node->vote
);

It looks like one way to do this is with hook_nodeapi and use the validate function to store the value. Dunno if node_form_build_preview has any capabilities as it is not documented in an example.