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Multiple Modules Affecting A Single Form
October 15, 2010, 11:36:56 am
I am working on a few modules that I hope to release soon. Two of them affect the event registration form. Because of the way the template override system works it seems difficult to have multiple modules tweaking a single form.

Just to clarify - I don't want to change the form for a single event, I want to add stuff to the default event registration form that would be available for every event.

With Drupal we have hook_form_alter. I can add items to a form using the buildForm hook, but I still have to alter the .tpl file for display.

Has anyone encountered this before? If I understand correctly, doesn't this limit some of the extensibility of CiviCRM.
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Re: Multiple Modules Affecting A Single Form
October 15, 2010, 01:34:49 pm

yes, this is a known issue and does limit the extensibility of CiviCRM

i'm not sure of a good / easy workaround for this, but will think about it. i suspect there is a solution, we just need to figure out where and how :)

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