By ludo1960 on

Hi,

I have a views exposed form and I am trying to target the form id, getting confused!

From what I have read "inspect HTML to get the form ID"

<form id="views-exposed-form-patient-search-page-1" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/cortex/patient">

So from what I have read 'views-exposed-form-patient-search-page-1' should be the form id, this don't work!

Tried 'views_exposed_form_patient_search_page_1' Still no luck!

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

If I am implementing hook_form_alter, I temporarily have add the line drupal_set_message("Form Id: $form_id") and visit the page in question. The devel module is also useful in this regard.

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ludo1960 commented

OK, so I have an exposed view and created a menu path for the page display, I tried the code in the view header, but all I get is "Form Id: "

I have the devel module Development block enabled, but I'm not sure which option to use to find the form_id

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

The code expects to be in an implementation of hook_form_alter() which would be part of a module.

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

Thanks again Nevets,,u da man!

jim0203’s picture

jim0203 commented

Check out

http://www.lullabot.com/articles/modifying-forms-5-and-6

Specifically the section "Find the form ID"

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ludo1960 commented

Jim, the info there on find the form id was just as I originally posted, ie look at the html source. To my cost I have found out that it is not always the case, Nevet's code works a treat!

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YK85 commented

hello,

I was wondering what the form id ending up being?

As you mentioned this code does not work:
function project_extras_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
switch ($form_id) {
case 'views_exposed_form_search_page_1' :

This code works but it affects all exposed forms on the site.
function project_extras_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
switch ($form_id) {
case 'views_exposed_form' :

Could you please help me to target just the view search or view search page 1.
Thank you!

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ludo1960 commented

When posting code, please us the code tags to make it easier to read for us!

The answer to your question is already in this thread see http://drupal.org/node/672688#comment-2428084

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nevets commented

You can use logic like

	if ( $form_id == 'views_exposed_form' ) {
		$view = $form_state['view'];
		if ( $view->name == 'colors' && $view->current_display == 'page_1' ) {
			// do something with form
		}
	}

You will need to change name ('colors') and display ('page_1') to reflect your actual view.

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YK85 commented

thanks nevets! your code above worked perfectly =)

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mohaly commented

Thanks Nevets for you solution, it works with me in Drupal 7.

Regards,

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marianojp commented

Paste this code inside your template.php. It's should give you the form id of the views exposed form. 

function phptemplate_views_exposed_form($form) {
     dsm($form);
     return($form);
}