Drupal 6 Form Elements Example Module

Published by philipnorton42 on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 13:59

During my work developing Drupal sites I am quite often asked if I can provide a example of form elements for designers. This is so that they can test their designs with all possible form elements that might appear in a Drupal install and make sure that the theme we create will be robust and future proof. I often find myself forgetting how to create, say, a multi select element and needed a sort of cheat sheet that I could look form elements up on.

To this end I sat down and created a list of all of the Drupal form elements and packaged them into a module so that when the path 'form_elements' is loaded a very large form with lots of elements will be rendered. There is even a tabledrag form component in there, which is used quite a bit within the Drupal administration pages.

The submit button will just post the information back to the form page and show the data that was returned. This means that the module is also useful if you want to see what sort of data each form element produces.

To use this module create a directory called form_elements and add a the following to the form_elements.info file.

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name = Form Elements
description = Prints out all of the form elements.
core = 6.x

The following code is for the form_elements.module file.

<?php
 
/**
 * For more informaiton about the different API controls available see:
 * http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html/6
 */
 
/**
 * Implements hook_menu() to create a URL for the form elements example.
 */
function form_elements_menu() {
    $items['form_elements'] = array(
        'title' => 'Drupal Form Elements',
        'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
        'page arguments' => array('form_elements_form'),
        'access callback' => TRUE,
    );
    return $items;
}
 
/**
 * This is form containing every form element type available.
 */
function form_elements_form() {
    // Check box
    $form['checkbox_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'checkbox',
        '#title' => t('Form elements checkbox'),
        '#default_value' => FALSE,
        '#description' => t('A regular checkbox.')
    );
 
    // Multiple checkbox
    $form['checkboxes_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'checkboxes',
        '#title' => t('Form elements checkboxes'),
        '#options' => range(0, 5),
        '#default_value' => array(1),
        '#description' => t('A regular set of checkboxes.')
    );
 
    // Date element
    $form['date_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'date',
        '#title' => t('Form elements date'),
        '#description' => t('A regular date.')
    );
 
    // Fieldset containing a text field element
    $form['fielset_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'fieldset',
        '#title' => t('Form elements fieldset element'),
        '#collapsible' => TRUE,
        '#collapsed' => FALSE,
    );
    // A text area inside a fieldset element
    $form['fielset_element']['fielset_element_textfield'] = array(
        '#type' => 'textfield',
        '#title' => t('Form elements textfield, in a fieldset'),
        '#description' => t('A regular textfield, in a fieldset.')
    );
 
    // A file upload element
    $form['file_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'file',
        '#title' => t('Form elements file'),
        '#description' => t('A regular file.')
    );
 
    // Password Element
    $form['password_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'password',
        '#title' => t('Form elements password'),
        '#description' => t('A regular password.')
    );
 
    // Confirm password element
    $form['password_confirm_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'password_confirm',
        '#title' => t('Form elements password_confirm'),
        '#description' => t('A regular password_confirm.')
    );
 
    // Radio element
    $form['radio_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'radio',
        '#title' => t('Form elements radio'),
        '#default_value' => TRUE,
        '#description' => t('A regular radio.')
    );
 
    // Radios element
    $form['radios_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'radios',
        '#title' => t('Form elements radios'),
        '#options' => range(0, 5),
        '#default_value' => 1,
        '#description' => t('A regular set of radios.')
    );
 
    // Select element
    $form['select_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'select',
        '#title' => t('Form elements select'),
        '#options' => range(0, 5),
        '#default_value' => 1,
        '#description' => t('A regular select.'),
    );
 
    // Mutli select element.
    $form['multiple_select_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'select',
        '#title' => t('Form elements multiple select'),
        '#options' => range(0, 5),
        '#default_value' => 1,
        '#description' => t('A regular multiple select.'),
        '#multiple' => TRUE
    );
 
    // A textfield element
    $form['textfield_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'textfield',
        '#title' => t('Form elements textfield'),
        '#description' => t('A regular textfield.')
    );
 
    // A text area element
    $form['textarea_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'textarea',
        '#title' => t('Form elements textarea'),
        '#description' => t('A regular textarea.')
    );
 
    // A weight element (usually used when sorting elements)
    $form['weight_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'weight',
        '#title' => t('Form elements weight'),
        '#description' => t('A regular weight.')
    );
 
    // Data for tabledrag element
    $rows = array(
        array(
            'id' => 1,
            'person' => 'Joe Blogs',
            'email' => 'joe@blogs.com',
            'weight' => 0,
        ),
        array(
            'id' => 2,
            'person' => 'Jane Blogs',
            'email' => 'jane@blogs.com',
            'weight' => 10,
        ),
    );
 
    // Tabledrag element
    foreach ($rows as $row) {
        $form['tabledragrows'][$row['id']]['person_' . $row['id']] = array(
            '#type' => 'textfield',
            '#default_value' => $row['person'],
            '#size' => 20,
        );
 
        $form['tabledragrows'][$row['id']]['email_' . $row['id']] = array(
            '#type' => 'textfield',
            '#default_value' => $row['email'],
            '#size' => 20,
        );
 
        // the weight form element.
        $form['tabledragrows'][$row['id']]['weight_' . $row['id']] = array(
            '#type' => 'weight',
            '#delta' => 50,
            '#default_value' => $row['weight'],
            '#attributes' => array('class' => 'weight'),
        );
    }
 
    // A button element
    $form['button_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'button',
        '#value' => t('Button'),
    );
 
    // A image button element
    $form['image_button_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'image_button',
        '#value' => t('Image Button'),
        '#src' => 'misc/druplicon.png'
    );
 
    // A hidden element
    $form['hidden_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'hidden',
        '#value' => t('A hidden element'),
    );
 
    // A token element
    $form['token_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'token',
        '#default_value' => t('A token element'),
    );
 
    // A markup (HTML) element
    $form['markup_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'markup',
        '#value' => '<p>' . t('A markup element') . '</p>'
    );
 
    // An item element
    $form['item_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'item',
        '#title' => t('An item element'),
        '#value' => t('An item element value')
    );
 
    // A value element (used internally)
    $form['value_element'] = array(
        '#type' => 'value',
        '#default_value' => t('A value element')
    );
 
    // A submit element
    $form['submit'] = array(
        '#type' => 'submit',
        '#value' => t('Submit'),
    );
 
    return $form;
}
 
/**
 * Implements hook_submit() for the form_elements_form() form.
 */
function form_elements_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
    // Exclude unnecessary elements.
    unset($form_state['values']['submit'], $form_state['values']['form_id'], $form_state['values']['op'], $form_state['values']['form_token'], $form_state['values']['form_build_id']);
 
    foreach ($form_state['values'] as $key => $value) {
        variable_set($key, $value);
        drupal_set_message(t('%name has value %value', array('%name' => $key, '%value' => print_r($value, TRUE))));
    }
}
 
/**
 * Implementation of hook_theme().
 */
function form_elements_theme() {
    return array(
        'form_elements_form' => array(
            'arguments' => array(
                'form' => NULL
            ),
        ),
    );
}
 
/**
 * Theme for form_element_form. Used to create the tabledrag element and then
 * render the rest of the form.
 */
function theme_form_elements_form($form) {
    $table_rows = array();
 
    if (is_array($form['tabledragrows'])) {
        //loop through each "row" in the table array
        foreach ($form['tabledragrows'] as $id => $row) {
            //we are only interested in numeric keys
            if (intval($id)) {
                $this_row = array();
 
                $this_row[] = drupal_render($form['tabledragrows'][$id]['person_' . $id]);
                $this_row[] = drupal_render($form['tabledragrows'][$id]['email_' . $id]);
 
                //Add the weight field to the row
                $this_row[] = drupal_render($form['tabledragrows'][$id]['weight_' . $id]);
 
                //Add the row to the array of rows
                $table_rows[] = array('data' => $this_row, 'class' => 'draggable');
            }
        }
    }
 
    //Make sure the header count matches the column count
    $header = array(
        "Person",
        "Email",
        "Weight"
    );
 
 
    $form['tabledragrows'] = array(
        '#value' => theme('table', $header, $table_rows, array('id' => 'person-email'))
    );
 
    $output = drupal_render($form);
 
    // Call add_tabledrag to add and setup the JavaScript
    // The key thing here is the first param - the table ID
    // and the 4th param, the class of the form item which holds the weight
    drupal_add_tabledrag('person-email', 'order', 'sibling', 'weight');
 
    return $output;
}