I have a Drupal website that uses the Quiz module to administer tests to visitors. These tests need to be available to anonymous users. My problem is that I need to be able to ask the test taker to enter name and e-mail so the results can be sent to them. I just don't know how to go about doing this. I consider myself a beginner in Drupal and PHP.
Any help would be appreciated.
-First of all, create a custom module.
-Secondly, you need to add the email address and name fields. You can do this by either adding the two fields via hook_form_alter in your custom module or by enabling and using the Short Answer module/field that's included in your Quiz module and then customising the style of the field according to your needs (because it'll look like a question). Personally, I would recommend adding them using hook_form_alter. Plus, I suggest you learn about Hooks in Drupal, it will make your life easier.
-You have to validate and retrieve the values for the two fields. You can also use the same form_alter hook for this. Add a validation and a submission function to the validate and the submit stack of your Quiz form ($form['#validate'][] = 'your_validate_function'; and $form['#submit'][] = 'your_submit_function';). You can validate your email by using Drupal's function valid_email_address and, of course, you can validate other fields and calling Drupal's form_set_error to notify users of any input mistakes.
-To send your email after the Quiz is submitted, call Drupal's drupal_mail, in your submit function, which basically takes all the parameters needed to send an email. You'll have to create a hook_mail in your custom module. Check out an example of how to do this here. You can retrieve your form values (name and email address) from the local array $form_state['values'], pass them as $params to your drupal_mail function and add them to the body of your email in your hook_mail function. And that's it :D
-Alternatively, you can send an email by creating an action and assigning an action to be performed after a user has completed this Quiz. The Quiz module has support for that. Here's an example of how to write an action.
You may also use hook_quiz_finished instead of form submit callback.
Quiz module uses it to perform actions like sending results over email at the end of a quiz.
function mymodule_quiz_finished($quiz, $score, $session_data) {
//Sending e-mail.
}
If you ended here and you are using Drupal 7, go to Rules http://www.yourwebsite.com/admin/config/workflow/rules, and set the rule that the Quiz module has made available already to active under the settings, the rule is called "Send quiz results at the end of a quiz". I couldn't find the ability to do this anywhere within the Quiz config itself. Tested and its working. Be sure that the Rules Module UI is enabled to allow you to make the edits.
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How can I achieve such a thing? I have a custom object type - for example, a Club. I want users of my app to be able to Follow a Club, which has a manager that posts general club updates, etc. The two approaches I can come up with are:
A - Change my custom Club object type to use the built-in Profile object type.
B - Choose a synonym for Follow and try to get a custom action through the review process.
I already tried submitting as a custom Subscribe action and was rejected. Option A seems like I would be using the system against the way that it was designed to be used.
Clarification
I don't care about the user receiving facebook notifications or "following" the club in the facebook sense of the word. I just want to publish something to the user's timeline such as "Sammy followed a club on MyApp."
Facebook allows you to have a custom "Follow" action, but they don't make it obvious... for obvious reasons.
Create a custom action with a name other than follow
On the next page, change the name to follow
This is not sneaky in any way. After being rejected several times for synonymous actions like "track" and "subscribe" to try to work around the implied no-custom-follows limitation, it was finally suggested to me by the reviewer that I use the word "follow" for my custom action.
I'm making a module to allow users to update single fields on in this case, their user entity.
The code below is an example of the method I have initially been using to get it working and test other elements of the module
global $user;
$account = user_load($user->uid);
$edit = (array) $account;
$edit['field_lastname']['und'][0]['value'] = 'test';
user_save($account, $edit);
However this bypasses any field validation defined elsewhere in Drupal. I don't want to reproduce any validation written elsewhere - it's not the Drupal way!
My question is: Is there a function in Drupal 7 that can be called to update the value of a single field. I imagine such a function would clear the appropriate caches, invoke the fields validation etc.
I am aware the solution will be totally different to my current user object based one. I just can't for the life of me find the appropriate function in the API. I wander whether the fact I am looking for a save function alone is the problem - and that there are some other necessary steps that come before.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
Check out the drupal_form_submit function. It lets you submit forms from code. In this case, you could use it to the user edit form, which would then fire the appropriate validation.
I have a node type that should only be edited by users under certain circumstances that go beyond the permissions their role has. I am doing this in a custom module.
I would like to remove the ability to even see the edit tab, and not just add a validation function to the form that will alert the user after the form is submitted.
I need to add some sort of access function. Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks in advance.
--Update--
I now have 2 ways that should work.
1) Using hook_nodeapi:
function mymodule_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL) {
switch($op) {
case 'prepare':
if(!mymodule_access_function($node)) {
$_REQUEST['destination'] = 'my_access_denied_page';
// rest of function
2) I can insert a access callback function into the menu item using hook_menu_alter.
For my purposes, 2 makes more sense. I thought I would spell out the code for (1) though since that was the answer given on this page and it works.
For the tabs visibility you can alter the themed output anywhere from a module hook to a theme template or css patch. Depending on the requirements for data visibility and performance issues some solutions are better than others. We need more details on what kind of processing you need.
For access, hook_nodeapi(), $op is 'prepare', run your custom code against $node at this point, and decide what you want to do (like redirect to another form if a requirement is not present, or to an access denied page).
Edit: Redirecting is usually done with $_REQUEST['destination'] = 'destination/alias' (does not break execution), sometimes drupal_goto('destination/alias') (breaks execution) is suitable but often it doesn't work. Please keep redirects tracked on your project, as with multiple logic conditions you may end up with unwanted and hard to debug behavior.
Every content type has default permission settings in admin/user/permissions for creating,editing ,deleting node . You may assign to anonymous or authenticated users. If you want assign to group then create another role and assign permission as mentioned above.
I'm having some problems setting up a tokenized email to use the tokens I've created in my module. I am using this in a tokenized email [example-contact]. I've implemented the example_token_values() and example_token_list() in my module and I've also created a trigger in my module. My module has a form, created with the form API, that gets stored in a custom table. My tokens are listed when I view all available token so I know that example_token_list() is working but when example_token_values() is called $type doesn't come up as equal to 'example'.
I need to pull information from the submitted form and display them on the tokenized email that is sent out. Am I missing a function? The Trigger I created is working and fires when the form is submitted and the Action is sending out the email the problem is that the tokens are not being replace with the form's values.
Is there a function that I need to implement that will call example_token_values("example",$form)?
An implementation of hook_token_values() can use any values for $object; if the module needs to use the value of $form passed to one of its functions, it can use it.
Whenever a content item is created, a message is displayed like this:
[Content Type] [Name] has been created.
Is there any way to disable this message for specific users? Or for all users would be fine too.
I think the best practice would be to use hook_nodeapi() and drupal_get_messages('status'). The $op for hook_nodeapi() would be insert. Ex:
mymodule_nodeapi(&$node, $op) {
if ($node->type == 'content_type_to_check_for' && $op == 'insert') {
drupal_get_messages('status');
}
}
It's node_form_submit that is creating those messages. You could pretty easily use hook_form_alter on the node form and use your own version of node_form_submit instead. All you would need to do, would be to copy the function and add an user_access('whatever') check before that message is created.
Alternatively, you could in preprocess_page function, check which messages is being served, and remove unwanted ones, but that would be a bit more tricky. Should be possible with some regex. On the other hand, this method would be a bit more upgrade friendly, since you could remain using the node_form_submit function and would get future changes if any.
Best way would be to user Disable Messages module.
There are many kind of messages that can be disabled by this module:
Filter out messages that match a full text string exactly.
Filter out messages that match a regular expression.
Permissions to specifically hide all messages of a given type from any role.
Disable all filtering for specific users.
Disable all filtering for specific paths.
Apply filtering only for specific paths.
Debug system to get messages in the HTML without showing it to the end users.
Here is the way I discovered to hide such messages for specific content types (the node type is 'request'):
// specific node type form alteration hook (implements [hook_form_FORM_ID_alter][1]())
function MYCUSTOMMODULE_form_request_node_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
// ...
// custom validation function
$form['#validate'][] = '_custom_request_node_form_validate';
// ...
}
function _custom_request_node_form_validate($form, &$form_state) {
//...
// here we can set a submit handler that is executed before
// node_form_submit which sets the messages we are trying to hide
$form_state['submit_handlers'][] = '_custom_request_node_disable_msg';
//...
}
function _custom_request_node_disable_msg($form, &$form_state) {
//...
// clear status messages
drupal_get_messages('status');
}
If you want to use the Rules module, then you can use the new module I created called "Better Rules Message".
By using this you can setup a rule that will delete all of the messages after a node is being created...
Hopefully this will be added to the main Rules module in the near future.
googletorp is right (about the submit function). But unfortunately you can't decouple the message from the node submit function and duplicating the functionality (without the message) is going to mean your site might break when a security release is issued. You'd have to maintain your own version of that function. It's probably not a big deal but it's a good idea to follow best practice.
You'll need to write your own submit hook either before or after node_form_submit gets called.
With a submit hook after the node save, you could remove the message from $_SESSION['messages'] if the messages array was easy enough to work with. I imagine that would be simple enough. See drupal_set_message
OR
You could write some class in CSS in your body tag and set the display to none when status messages are returned on the page that the node form submits to. But that might put your business logic in your theme layer which should be avoided.
You can use stringoverrides module in drupal ! :)
You could try using the following module to disable specific messages in Drupal - http://drupal.org/project/disable_messages