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I've just been struggling with customizing a public CiviCRM profile form. Typically, the forms generated by CiviCRM profiles aren't quite what the client wants, so I often use the standalone mechanism to create a static drupal page with the standalone version of the form and then mangle it. Three problems with this approach are:

1. I can't use either the civicrm captcha or the drupal anti-spam form mechanisms (captcha or mollom) to protect the initial form.
2. I can't customize the form with any functionality using drupal's formapi methods (hook_form_alter or form theming)
3. The form handling page is the civicrm-generated form, which means I loose the standalone customizations on any form-handling (yes, I could manually code some javascript to do it all there...).

I suspect I might be just missing some information here to solve some of these issues, but being drupal-biased, I really, really just want to manage these forms using drupal. So I think what I want is to use the civicrm api in a custom drupal module that converts civicrm profile forms into drupal forms.

1. has anyone already done this?
2. does this make sense to anyone else?

 - Alan

okay, thanks. I'll try the custom smarty template approach.