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By half_brick on
I'm grappling with learning drupal and have made a custom node type of my own.
I now want to create a custom form for that node so that I can specify a relation between this node and another.
How can I go about creating another form for this module into which the user can put the other node name or select from a drop down list?
Basically, can you define futher forms and update actions past the CRUD ones with drupal, or are you stuck with the add/update form?
Cheers
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Starting points
http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/file/developer/topics/forms_api.html
http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/file/developer/topics/forms_api_reference....
http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/group/form
And have a look through the code of modules that do sorta similar stuff to see how they did it.
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My issue is not so much with
My issue is not so much with the building of the form, but where to define the form within the module?
If I create a function to build the form, how will drupal know where to find it and to execute it?
thanks
It's all about the hooks
http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/group/hooks
Modules are basically just a series of hook functions that get triggered by Drupal for various events.
eg for your own node type:
http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_form
or for adding your own stuff to other node types:
http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_nodeapi
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