By kkinfy on

Hi Everyone,

In my application I have two content types. When user submits one of the contents, I need to programmatically fill in details for the content of the other type and submit it. For this purpose I think I shoud be using drupal_execute() function.
But where exactly to use this function. I mean is there some function when implemented will get invoked after the submission of a form? I was referring to forms api documentation but with no success. Can someone help me in this regard?

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nedjo
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http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_form_alter/

E.g., to add a submit handler to the 'story_node_form' form:


function example_form_story_node_form_alter(&$form, $form_state) {
  $form['#submit'][] = 'example_story_node_form_submit';
}

function example_story_node_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
  ...
  $node = new StdClass();
  $node->type = 'other_type';
  ...
  node_submit($node);
  // Save a new node of the other type.
  node_save($node);
}
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kkinfy commented

Hi Thanks a lot, but my problem is bit tricky.

From your example, i can invoke example_story_node_form_submit while submitting example_form_story_node_form. But I also have a requirement to pass on few field values from the invoking form to the invoked form. Please can you tell me ,if this this possible by some means?

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nedjo
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The form values submitted are available in the #submit callback in the $form_state['values'] argument.

To see how this works, you can study some of the functions in Drupal core whose names end in _submit.

http://api.drupal.org/api/search/6/_submit

e.g. a simple one: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/example_form_submit/6