Drupal Form:want to show previous form value as default_value on page

Question

My Goal is if user is submitting this form with \"Product Name\" value as \"YYY\". On submit page should reload but this time \"Product Name\" should show previous valye as

Answer 1

You can use $form_state['storage'] in your submit handler to hoard values between steps. So add a submit function like so:

function addnewproduct_form_submit ($form, &$form_state) {
  // Store values
  $form_state['storage']['addnewproduct_productname'] = $form_state['values']['productname'];
  // Rebuild the form
  $form_state['rebuild'] = TRUE;    
}

Then your form builder function would become:

function addnewproduct_form(&$form_state) { 

$form = array();

$form['productname'] = array (
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('Product Name'),
'#required' => TRUE,
'#size' => '20',

);

if (isset($form_state['storage']['addnewproduct_productname'])) {
  $form['productname']['#default_value'] = $form_state['storage']['addnewproduct_productname'];
}

return $form;
}

Just remember that your form will keep being generated as long as your $form_state['storage'] is stuffed. So you will need to adjust your submit handler and unset($form_state['storage']) when are ready to save values to the database etc.

If your form is more like a filter ie. used for displaying rather than storing info, then you can get away with just

function addnewproduct_form_submit ($form, &$form_state) {
  // Rebuild the form
  $form_state['rebuild'] = TRUE;    
}

When the form rebuilds it will have access to $form_state['values'] from the previous iteration.

Answer 2

simply adding rebuilt = true will do the job:

  $form_state['rebuild'] = TRUE;

version: Drupal 7

Answer 3

In my case I had a couple of drop-downs. Submitting the form posted back to the same page, where I could filter a view and I wanted to show the previously selected options. On submitting the form I built a query string in the submit hook:

function myform_submit($form, &$form_state) {

  $CourseCat = $form_state['values']['coursecat']; 

  drupal_goto("courses" , array('query' => 
    array('cat'=>$CourseCat))
  );
}

In the form build hook, all I did was get the current query string and used those as default values, like so:

function myform_form($form, &$form_state) {
  $Params = drupal_get_query_parameters ();
  $CatTree = taxonomy_get_tree(taxonomy_vocabulary_machine_name_load ('category')->vid);

  $Options = array ();
  $Options ['all'] = 'Select Category';
  foreach ($CatTree as $term) {
        $Options [$term->tid] = $term->name;
  } 
  $form['cat'] = array(
    '#type' => 'select',
    '#default_value' => $Params['cat'],      
    '#options' => $Options
  );

  $form['submit'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#default_value' => 'all',
    '#value' => t('Filter'),
  );

  return $form;
}

Answer 4

For anyone looking for an answer here while using webform (which I just struggled through), here's what I ended up doing:

//in hook_form_alter
$form['#submit'][] = custom_booking_form_submit;

function custom_booking_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
//  drupal_set_message("in form submit");
//  dpm($form_state, 'form_state');

    foreach ($form_state['values']['submitted_tree'] as $form_state_key => $form_state_value) {

        $form_state['storage'][$form_state_key] = $form_state_value;
    }
}

Note: added the ' as it was lost

Answer 5

I prefer to save all values in one time when we are speaking about complex forms :

foreach ($form_state['values'] as $form_state_key => $form_state_value) {
    $form_state['storage'][$form_state_key] = $form_state['values'][$form_state_value];
}

Answer 6

Not sure if this would work for you, but you could try adding the #default_value key to the form array

$form['productname'] = array (
'#type' => 'textfield',
'#title' => t('Product Name'),
'#required' => TRUE,
'#size' => '20',
'#default_value' => variable_get('productname', ''),
);

That way if the variable is set it will grab whatever it is, but if not you can use a default value.