Author Topic: Custom form validation hooks and form name.... (Read 1601 times)

TheEdge · January 17, 2012, 01:40:50 am

Hi,

I have read:

- http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmvalidate
- http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm/ch067_hooks/

Both mention that you need to search for the name of the form you want to validate. I created a contact form to be used as a profile (see attached). The form is called up from a simple menu item (see attached).

Looking at the generated source I see that the form is defined as:

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<form action="http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/create&Itemid=39" method="post" name="Edit" id="Edit" _lpchecked="1">

So naturally the name of the form is "edit". However I want to make the name of the form more descriptive and under my control as I don't want to end up with edit2, edit3 etc. How/where do I do this?

Hershel · January 17, 2012, 10:24:07 am

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So naturally the name of the form is "edit".

I don't think so. The $formName parameter in the civicrm_validate hook doesn't correspond to the HTML name. What I would suggest is you try a simple:

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echo $formName;die
in your hook. Then submit the form in question and you will see the name.

dsdart · January 18, 2012, 11:03:23 am

Thank you so much for posting how to find $formname - I just spent at least 45 minutes looking for this info and didn't know to put "die" after the echo!

Hershel · January 18, 2012, 11:49:23 am

That is the low tech way. A better way to debug is actually:

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drupal_set_message( '<b>TESTING: </b><pre>' . print_r($formname,1) . '</pre>');

dsdart · January 18, 2012, 03:20:24 pm

Cool - initially I was using the postProcess hook instead of the buildForm hook and $formname instead of $formName, but when I corrected those two things, drupal_set_message works great!

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