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I know that you can edit a copy of a tpl file to remove certain fields from an edit form, but what is the best way to remove a whole block of fields, for example the address fields on the contact edit form?

I could just create a custom copy of the Contact/Form/Edit/Address.tpl and remove all the template code from it, but this doesn't seem like an elegant way of doing this. Is there a way to edit the $blocks template variable before the page is constructed?

Some other methods I know of

1) Hide it client side through the use of CSS or Javascript. My preference would be to hide it on the server and not even deliver these hidden fields to the client.
2) Use the hook_civicrm_postProcess to remove these elements from the form, but I would need to remove a numerical index from the Drupal $form->_elements array. This seems very "hacky" to me.

Any thoughts?