Default input format for different node type

I'm trying to do the same. Anyone know if this is possible?

The Filter module description makes it sound like that's the way to do it, but I can't see how/where.

Ok, I figured it out. I don't know why I didn't see it before. The option is under administrator > input format. It is that simple.

Thanks a lot for this thread - I managed to change the default input format for my wiki by changing a line in the node.module to:

$form['body_filter']['format'] = filter_form(7);

However, I'm not sure this is the best way to do it, hacking a core module - so I guess my question is - is there a better way to do this - perhaps by adding some lines to my template.php?

thanks

http://drupal.org/project/filterbynodetype

cross post of
http://drupal.org/node/35245#comment-241160

I did a rough porting of the filterbynodetype module to Drupal core 6.x.

I've also extended the module so that it also allows to select which input filters can be used with comments.

If you want to give it a try, you can download it from http://danielepighin.net/cms/software .

I was able to accomplish what I wanted by a different method. I have just one content type where I want to use a different input format. I created a custom module and use the following hook to change the input format upon submission (before the form contents are sent to be processed and saved).

function your_custom_module_name_node_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {

  if ($form_state['values']['type'] == 'your_content_type') {

    // change to full html input format
    $form_state['values']['format'] = 2;

  }

}

I tried all the solutions i have seen here. None of it seems to work. What might I have done wrong?

If you want to change the default input format for the body field of a specific content type, using hook_form_alter:

<?php

function example_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  switch ($form_id) {
    case 'type1_node_form':
      // Set default body field input format to Filtered HTML
      foreach(element_children($form['body_field']['format']) as $key) {
        $form['body_field']['format'][$key]['#default_value'] = '1'; // Filtered HTML
      }
    break;
    case 'type2_node_form':
      // Set default body field input format to Full HTML
      foreach(element_children($form['body_field']['format']) as $key) {
        $form['body_field']['format'][$key]['#default_value'] = '2'; // Full HTML
      }
    break;
  }
}
?>

On my system values are 1 for Filtered HTML, 2 for Full HTML, 3 for Messaging plain text, 4 for PHP code and 5 for WYSIWYG. Yours may be different, try doing a

print_r($form['body_field']['format'])

to see your actual values.

I think,
for this function you can use module "Better Formats" .

Tomas

Use hook_form_alter and an after_build function. Afterbuilds are a bit weird. Don't forget to return $form in the afterbuild, and make sure to take a look at the structure of the $form object, because it changes in the afterbuild function.

function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){
  $form['#after_build'][] = "mymodule_after_build";
}

function mymodule_after_build($form, &$form_state){
  
  //Set the default input format to 5 for "my cck field" in the fieldset "my fieldset"
  $form['my_fieldset']['my_cck_field'][0]['format'][5]['#value'] = 5;
  
  //Don't forget to return, $form is not passed by reference here.
  return $form;
}

If you're doing this in conjunction with better formats, you'll need to use hook_elements instead. Make sure your module weight is higher than BF in the system table so your hook runs after

function mymodule_elements() {
  return array(
    'text_textfield' => array(
      '#process' => array('mymodule_text_process'),
    ),
    'text_textarea' => array(
      '#process' => array('mymodule_text_process'),
    ),
  );
}



function mymodule_text_process($element, $edit, $form_state, $form) {

	
	if($element['#field_name'] == "my_cck_field"){
		$field = $form['#field_info'][$element['#field_name']];

		if (!empty($field['text_processing'])) {
	    	// Get core default for new or selected format for existing.
	    	$filter_key = (count($element['#columns']) == 2) ? $element['#columns'][1] : 'format';
	    	$parents    = array_merge($element['#parents'] , array($filter_key));
	    	$default    = better_formats_get_default_format('node', $form['type']['#value']);
	
	    	//Force the default the format ID
	    	$format = 7;
	    
	    	$element['#value'][$filter_key] = $format;
	    	$element[$filter_key] = better_formats_filter_form($format, 7, 'node', $form['type']['#value'], 1, $parents);
	    }				 
	}
	
	return $element;
}