HowTo: Customize multiple textareas in one form [#297517]

Hello,

I have been reading the discussion at http://drupal.org/node/81297, and found it very interesting. Especially the details about the addition of the '#wysiwyg' attribute.

I have a form that contains multiple textareas, and currently the wysiwyg.module is applying editors to all of them, so I plan to use the '#wysiwyg' attribute to over come this.

Is there a way to disable multiple textareas without having to code specific cases for each field?

So instead of :
$form[textarea-1][#wysiwyg] = false;
$form[textarea-2][#wysiwyg] = false;
... etc

Can I do something like:
$form[field-type][textarea][#wysiwyg] = false;

Any help would be great.

Comments

Comment #1

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 20 August 2008 at 11:42

Status:

Active

» Fixed

Unfortunately, no. You would have to use element_children($form) to iterate over all form fields (recursively). I would be interested in everything you come up with.

Also, there is no setting to switch the overall default value of #wysiwyg to FALSE, so you could selectively set it to TRUE on certain fields only. I think this would be valuable to have, but requires a lot of consideration and development.

Comment #2

emTque CreditAttribution: emTque commented 22 August 2008 at 01:58

Status:

Fixed

» Needs work

i have made a little headway with this, but it is not working completely.

i used the form_alter hook in one of my contrib modules to iterate through the form fields as you suggested with the following code:

foreach (element_children($form) as $key) { 
      if($form[$key]['#type'] == 'textarea') {
        $form[$key]['#wysiwyg'] = FALSE;
      }
      else {
        // recurse through all children
        mycontribmodule_form_alter($form_id, $form[$key]); 
      }   
    }

this was based on the form_alter i found in "jscalendar.module".

i then created a white-list of textareas where i wanted the wysiwyg editor, using the $form array:

$form['body_filter']['body']['#wysiwyg'] = TRUE;

this worked fine for every field except those that are added by the Workflow module. it seems that these are added after my form_alter is finished with the $form array, so i can't target them.

any suggestions??

Comment #3

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 22 August 2008 at 11:06

Status:

Needs work

» Active

Yes, that's possible. You need to increase the weight of your module to a value that is higher than the weight of workflow module. Module weights are stored in the 'system' database table.