By numfar85 on

I want to take the content of a textarea and process it with a php function in my module when a user clicks submit in a form.

How do I do this? There doesn't seem to be a #callback attribute to set for the submit button according to the form api, or have I missunderstood?

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tce commented

I think you need to use a submit handler in hook_form_alter

<?php
$form['#submit'][] = 'callback_form_submit';
?>

then in the callback you can manipulate the textarea

<?php
function callback_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
  // find the textarea value in $form_state['values]
}
?>
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numfar85 commented

So you can't add it directly in the form builder function?

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numfar85 commented

Oh, and also I have the function _molmeth_add_form_submit() which should be run after the callback function if certain requirements are met. Will this be possible to configure in the callback function or somewhere else?

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numfar85 commented

Problem is solved.