Mark and Jill exceeded my expectations. I'm fairly new to Drupal and the project I'm working on for my largest customer needed some theme help, code modification, and data entry. Mark and Jill took care of it in short order.
I'm a huge fan of the Webform module (and building Drupal forms in general), and I just today noticed a feature I hadn't previously taken advantage of. This is the ability to programmatically add what are called "pre-built" option lists that can be used in your webforms.
Let's say that you want the user to select his/her age from a dropdown. Age possibilities range from 1-100. Without a pre-built option list, you'd have to type in 0|0, 1|1, 2|2, etc. into the "options" field. You can now do this using the webform api and a small custom module for your site.
In your custom module, you have to declare your new options list. Here's an example:
<?php
/**
* Implementation of hook_webform_select_options_info().
* See webform/webform_hooks.php for further information on this hook in the Webform API.
*/
function YOURMODULENAME_webform_select_options_info() {
$items = array();
$items['one_onehundred'] = array(
'title' => t('Numbers 1-100'),
'options callback' => 'YOURMODULENAME_options_one_onehundred'
);
return $items;
}
?>After that, you need to write a function that spits out the options list. For this example, that looks like:
<?php
/**
* Build an options list for use by webforms.
*/
function YOURMODULENAME_options_one_onehundred() {
$options = array();
for ($x=1; $x <= 100; $x++) {
$options[$x] = $x;
}
return $options;
}
?>After that, just enable your custom module, and you should be able to use your new pre-built options list in your webforms. Check out the webform_hooks.php file (included in the Webform module directory) for more information.
Note: This is for Drupal 6 and Webform 3.0-beta 5.
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Cool subject, I didn't know
Cool subject, I didn't know you could do that. Though I feel compelled to point out that age can be higher than 100.