I'm kinda stumped on this, and hoping someone here could offer some insight. Hopefully its a simple question. I am using the ctools modal dialogs to generate some sub forms. The issue i can't get around is how do i send data to the form. In my case I want to auto populate some of the form fields based on criteria on the parent page. But i'm just not figuring this one out.

Thanks in advance

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joshk’s picture

joshk commented
Status: Active » Needs work

$form_state + hook_form_alter() allows this. For instance, in your callback to generate your form you have something like:

  $form_state = array(
        'title' => t('Login'),
        'ajax' => TRUE,
    );
    $output = ctools_modal_form_wrapper('user_login', $form_state);

In addition to adding more arguments and data in the form_state at that point, you can do something like this:

function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'user_login' && $form_state['ajax']) {
    $form['name']['#default_value'] = 'josh';
  }
}

Which will allow you to pre-fill the values.

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Needs work » Fixed

I think josh's answer sufficiently covers this!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.