- Patch #355236 by Frando: refactor drupal_render() theming.

includes/common.inc

@@ -3217,7 +3217,7 @@ function drupal_alter($type, &$data) {
  */
 function drupal_get_page($content = NULL) {
   // Initialize page array with defaults. @see hook_elements() - 'page' element.
-  $page = _element_info('page');
+  $page = element_info('page');
   $page['content'] = is_array($content) ? $content : array('main' => array('#markup' => $content));
 
   return $page;
@@ -3253,6 +3253,28 @@ function drupal_render_page($page) {
  * Renders HTML given a structured array tree.
  *
  * Recursively iterates over each of the array elements, generating HTML code.
+ *
+ * HTML generation is controlled by two properties containing theme functions, 
+ * #theme and #theme_wrapper.
+ *
+ * #theme is the theme function called first. If it is set and the element has any
+ * children, they have to be rendered there. For elements that are not allowed
+ * to have any children, e.g. buttons or textfields, it can be used to render
+ * the element itself. If #theme is not present and the element has children,
+ * they are rendered and concatenated into a string by drupal_render_children().
+ *
+ * The theme function in #theme_wrapper will be called after #theme has run. It
+ * can be used to add further markup around the rendered children, e.g. fieldsets
+ * add the required markup for a fieldset around their rendered child elements. 
+ * A wrapper theme function always has to include the element's #children property
+ * in its output, as this contains the rendered children. 
+ *
+ * For example, for the form element type, by default only the #theme_wrapper
+ * property is set, which adds the form markup around the rendered child elements
+ * of the form. This allows you to set the #theme property on a specific form to 
+ * a custom theme function, giving you complete control over the placement of the
+ * form's children while not at all having to deal with the form markup itself.
+ *
  * This function is usually called from within a another function, like
  * drupal_get_form() or node_view(). Elements are sorted internally using
  * uasort(). Since this is expensive, when passing already sorted elements to
@@ -3267,15 +3289,27 @@ function drupal_render_page($page) {
 function drupal_render(&$elements) {
   // Early-return nothing if user does not have access.
   if (!isset($elements) || (isset($elements['#access']) && !$elements['#access'])) {
-    return NULL;
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // Do not print elements twice.
+  if (isset($elements['#printed']) && $elements['#printed']) {
+    return;
   }
 
-  // If the default values for this element haven't been loaded yet, populate
+  // If the default values for this element have not been loaded yet, populate
   // them.
-  if (!isset($elements['#defaults_loaded']) || !$elements['#defaults_loaded']) {
-    if ((!empty($elements['#type'])) && ($info = _element_info($elements['#type']))) {
-      $elements += $info;
-    }
+  if (isset($elements['#type']) && empty($elements['#defaults_loaded'])) {
+    $elements += element_info($elements['#type']);
+  }
+  else {
+    $elements += element_basic_defaults();
+  }
+  
+  // If #markup is not empty and no theme function is set, use theme_markup.
+  // This allows to specify just #markup on an element without setting the #type.
+  if (!empty($elements['#markup']) && empty($elements['#theme'])) {
+    $elements['#theme'] = 'markup';
   }
 
   // Make any final changes to the element before it is rendered. This means
@@ -3297,68 +3331,63 @@ function drupal_render(&$elements) {
     $elements['#sorted'] = TRUE;
   }
 
-  $content = '';
-  $elements += array('#title' => NULL, '#description' => NULL);
-  if (!isset($elements['#children'])) {
-    $children = element_children($elements);
-    // Render all the children that use a theme function.
-    if (isset($elements['#theme']) && empty($elements['#theme_used'])) {
-      $elements['#theme_used'] = TRUE;
-
-      $previous = array();
-      foreach (array('#type', '#prefix', '#suffix') as $key) {
-        $previous[$key] = isset($elements[$key]) ? $elements[$key] : NULL;
-      }
-      // If we rendered a single element, then we will skip the renderer.
-      if (empty($children)) {
-        $elements['#printed'] = TRUE;
-      }
-      else {
-        $elements['#markup'] = '';
-      }
-
-      unset($elements['#type'], $elements['#prefix'], $elements['#suffix']);
-      $content = theme($elements['#theme'], $elements);
-
-      foreach (array('#type', '#prefix', '#suffix') as $key) {
-        $elements[$key] = isset($previous[$key]) ? $previous[$key] : NULL;
-      }
-    }
-    // Render each of the children using drupal_render and concatenate them.
-    if (!isset($content) || $content === '') {
-      foreach ($children as $key) {
-        $content .= drupal_render($elements[$key]);
-      }
-    }
+  $elements['#children'] = '';
+  // Call the element's #theme function if it is set. Then any children of the
+  // element have to be rendered there.
+  if (isset($elements['#theme'])) {
+    $elements['#children'] = theme($elements['#theme'], $elements);
   }
-  if (isset($content) && $content !== '') {
-    $elements['#children'] = $content;
+  // If #theme was not set and the element has children, render them now
+  // using drupal_render_children().
+  if ($elements['#children'] == '') {
+    $elements['#children'] = drupal_render_children($elements);
   }
 
-  // Until now, we rendered the children, here we render the element itself
-  if (!isset($elements['#printed'])) {
-    $content = theme(!empty($elements['#type']) ? $elements['#type'] : 'markup', $elements);
-    $elements['#printed'] = TRUE;
+  // Let the theme function in #theme_wrapper add markup around the rendered
+  // children.
+  if (!empty($elements['#theme_wrapper'])) {
+    $elements['#children'] = theme($elements['#theme_wrapper'], $elements);
   }
 
-  if (isset($content) && $content !== '') {
-    // Filter the outputted content and make any last changes before the
-    // content is sent to the browser. The changes are made on $content
-    // which allows the output'ed text to be filtered.
-    if (isset($elements['#post_render'])) {
-      foreach ($elements['#post_render'] as $function) {
-        if (drupal_function_exists($function)) {
-          $content = $function($content, $elements);
-        }
+  // Filter the outputted content and make any last changes before the
+  // content is sent to the browser. The changes are made on $content
+  // which allows the output'ed text to be filtered.
+  if (isset($elements['#post_render'])) {
+    foreach ($elements['#post_render'] as $function) {
+      if (drupal_function_exists($function)) {
+        $elements['#children'] = $function($elements['#children'], $elements);
       }
     }
-    $prefix = isset($elements['#prefix']) ? $elements['#prefix'] : '';
-    $suffix = isset($elements['#suffix']) ? $elements['#suffix'] : '';
-    $content = $prefix . $content . $suffix;
-    // Store the rendered content, so higher level elements can reuse it.
-    $elements['#content'] = $content;
-    return $content;
   }
+
+  $prefix = isset($elements['#prefix']) ? $elements['#prefix'] : '';
+  $suffix = isset($elements['#suffix']) ? $elements['#suffix'] : '';
+
+  $elements['#printed'] = TRUE;
+  return $prefix . $elements['#children'] . $suffix;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render children of an element and concatenate them.
+ *
+ * This renders all children of an element using drupal_render() and then
+ * joins them together into a single string.
+ *
+ * @param $element
+ *   The structured array whose children shall be rendered.
+ * @param $children_keys
+ *   If the keys of the element's children are already known, they can be passed
+ *   in to save another run of element_children().
+ */
+function drupal_render_children($element, $children_keys = NULL) {
+  if ($children_keys === NULL) {
+    $children_keys = element_children($element);
+  }
+  $output = '';
+  foreach ($children_keys as $key) {
+    $output .= drupal_render($element[$key]);
+  }
+  return $output;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -3373,6 +3402,44 @@ function element_sort($a, $b) {
   return ($a_weight < $b_weight) ? -1 : 1;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Retrieve the default properties for the defined element type.
+ */
+function element_info($type, $refresh = NULL) {
+  static $cache;
+
+  if (!isset($cache) || $refresh) {
+    $basic_defaults = element_basic_defaults();
+    $cache = array();
+    foreach (module_implements('elements') as $module) {
+      $elements = module_invoke($module, 'elements');
+      if (isset($elements) && is_array($elements)) {
+        $cache = array_merge_recursive($cache, $elements);
+      }
+    }
+    if (!empty($cache)) {
+      foreach ($cache as $element_type => $info) {
+        $cache[$element_type] = array_merge_recursive($basic_defaults, $info);
+        $cache[$element_type]['#type'] = $element_type;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return $cache[$type];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Retrieve the basic default properties that are common to all elements.
+ */
+function element_basic_defaults() {
+  return array(
+    '#description' => '',
+    '#title' => '',
+    '#attributes' => array(),
+    '#required' => FALSE,
+  );
+}
+
 /**
  * Function used by uasort to sort structured arrays by weight, without the property weight prefix.
  */
@@ -3410,7 +3477,13 @@ function element_child($key) {
  * Get keys of a structured array tree element that are not properties (i.e., do not begin with '#').
  */
 function element_children($element) {
-  return array_filter(array_keys((array) $element), 'element_child');
+  $keys = array();
+  foreach(array_keys($element) as $key) {
+    if ($key[0] !== '#') { 
+      $keys[] = $key;
+    }
+  }
+  return $keys;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -3564,24 +3637,15 @@ function drupal_common_theme() {
     'radios' => array(
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
-    'password_confirm' => array(
-      'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
-    ),
     'date' => array(
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
-    'item' => array(
-      'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
-    ),
     'checkbox' => array(
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
     'checkboxes' => array(
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
-    'submit' => array(
-      'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
-    ),
     'button' => array(
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
@@ -3591,9 +3655,6 @@ function drupal_common_theme() {
     'hidden' => array(
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
-    'token' => array(
-      'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
-    ),
     'textfield' => array(
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
@@ -3616,7 +3677,7 @@ function drupal_common_theme() {
       'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
     'form_element' => array(
-      'arguments' => array('element' => NULL, 'value' => NULL),
+      'arguments' => array('element' => NULL),
     ),
   );
 }

includes/form.inc

@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ function drupal_prepare_form($form_id, &$form, &$form_state) {
     $form['#id'] = form_clean_id($form_id);
   }
 
-  $form += _element_info('form');
+  $form += element_info('form');
   $form += array('#tree' => FALSE, '#parents' => array());
 
   if (!isset($form['#validate'])) {
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ function form_builder($form_id, $form, &$form_state) {
   $form['#processed'] = FALSE;
 
   // Use element defaults.
-  if ((!empty($form['#type'])) && ($info = _element_info($form['#type']))) {
+  if ((!empty($form['#type'])) && ($info = element_info($form['#type']))) {
     // Overlay $info onto $form, retaining preexisting keys in $form.
     $form += $info;
   }
@@ -1348,35 +1348,6 @@ function _form_set_value(&$form_values, $form_item, $parents, $value) {
   }
 }
 
-/**
- * Retrieve the default properties for the defined element type.
- */
-function _element_info($type, $refresh = NULL) {
-  static $cache;
-
-  $basic_defaults = array(
-    '#description' => NULL,
-    '#attributes' => array(),
-    '#required' => FALSE,
-  );
-  if (!isset($cache) || $refresh) {
-    $cache = array();
-    foreach (module_implements('elements') as $module) {
-      $elements = module_invoke($module, 'elements');
-      if (isset($elements) && is_array($elements)) {
-        $cache = array_merge_recursive($cache, $elements);
-      }
-    }
-    if (sizeof($cache)) {
-      foreach ($cache as $element_type => $info) {
-        $cache[$element_type] = array_merge_recursive($basic_defaults, $info);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  return $cache[$type];
-}
-
 function form_options_flatten($array, $reset = TRUE) {
   static $return;
 
@@ -1419,7 +1390,7 @@ function theme_select($element) {
   $size = $element['#size'] ? ' size="' . $element['#size'] . '"' : '';
   _form_set_class($element, array('form-select'));
   $multiple = $element['#multiple'];
-  return theme('form_element', $element, '<select name="' . $element['#name'] . '' . ($multiple ? '[]' : '') . '"' . ($multiple ? ' multiple="multiple" ' : '') . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . ' id="' . $element['#id'] . '" ' . $size . '>' . form_select_options($element) . '</select>');
+  return '<select name="' . $element['#name'] . '' . ($multiple ? '[]' : '') . '"' . ($multiple ? ' multiple="multiple" ' : '') . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . ' id="' . $element['#id'] . '" ' . $size . '>' . form_select_options($element) . '</select>';
 }
 
 function form_select_options($element, $choices = NULL) {
@@ -1555,8 +1526,7 @@ function theme_radio($element) {
     $output = '<label class="option" for="' . $element['#id'] . '">' . $output . ' ' . $element['#title'] . '</label>';
   }
 
-  unset($element['#title']);
-  return theme('form_element', $element, $output);
+  return $output;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1576,28 +1546,8 @@ function theme_radios($element) {
     $class .= ' ' . $element['#attributes']['class'];
   }
   $element['#children'] = '<div class="' . $class . '">' . (!empty($element['#children']) ? $element['#children'] : '') . '</div>';
-  if ($element['#title'] || $element['#description']) {
-    unset($element['#id']);
-    return theme('form_element', $element, $element['#children']);
-  }
-  else {
-    return $element['#children'];
-  }
-}
 
-/**
- * Format a password_confirm item.
- *
- * @param $element
- *   An associative array containing the properties of the element.
- *   Properties used: title, value, id, required, error.
- * @return
- *   A themed HTML string representing the form item.
- *
- * @ingroup themeable
- */
-function theme_password_confirm($element) {
-  return theme('form_element', $element, $element['#children']);
+  return $element['#children'];
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1665,7 +1615,7 @@ function password_confirm_validate($form, &$form_state) {
  * @ingroup themeable
  */
 function theme_date($element) {
-  return theme('form_element', $element, '<div class="container-inline">' . $element['#children'] . '</div>');
+  return '<div class="container-inline">' . drupal_render_children($element) . '</div>';
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1881,6 +1831,8 @@ function form_process_input_format($element) {
     // We need to break references, otherwise form_builder recurses infinitely.
     $element['value'] = (array)$element;
     $element['#type'] = 'markup';
+    $element['#theme'] = NULL;
+    $element['#theme_wrapper'] = NULL;
     $element['format'] = filter_form($element['#text_format'], 1, $element_parents);
 
     // We need to clear the #text_format from the new child otherwise we
@@ -1976,21 +1928,6 @@ function form_process_ahah($element) {
   return $element;
 }
 
-/**
- * Format a form item.
- *
- * @param $element
- *   An associative array containing the properties of the element.
- *   Properties used:  title, value, description, required, error
- * @return
- *   A themed HTML string representing the form item.
- *
- * @ingroup themeable
- */
-function theme_item($element) {
-  return theme('form_element', $element, $element['#markup'] . (!empty($element['#children']) ? $element['#children'] : ''));
-}
-
 /**
  * Format a checkbox.
  *
@@ -2016,8 +1953,7 @@ function theme_checkbox($element) {
     $checkbox = '<label class="option" for="' . $element['#id'] . '">' . $checkbox . ' ' . $element['#title'] . '</label>';
   }
 
-  unset($element['#title']);
-  return theme('form_element', $element, $checkbox);
+  return $checkbox;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2036,13 +1972,21 @@ function theme_checkboxes($element) {
     $class .= ' ' . $element['#attributes']['class'];
   }
   $element['#children'] = '<div class="' . $class . '">' . (!empty($element['#children']) ? $element['#children'] : '') . '</div>';
+  
+  return $element['#children'];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Add form_element theming to an element if title or desription is set.
+ *
+ * This is used as a pre render function for checkboxes and radios.
+ */
+function form_pre_render_conditional_form_element($element) {
   if ($element['#title'] || $element['#description']) {
     unset($element['#id']);
-    return theme('form_element', $element, $element['#children']);
-  }
-  else {
-    return $element['#children'];
+    $element['#theme_wrapper'] = 'form_element';
   }
+  return $element;
 }
 
 function form_process_checkboxes($element) {
@@ -2090,7 +2034,7 @@ function theme_tableselect($element) {
       $row = array();
 
       // Render the checkbox / radio element.
-      $row[] = $element[$key]['#content'];
+      $row[] = drupal_render($element[$key]);
 
       // As theme_table only maps header and row columns by order, create the
       // correct order by iterating over the header fields.
@@ -2243,15 +2187,6 @@ function theme_hidden($element) {
   return '<input type="hidden" name="' . $element['#name'] . '" id="' . $element['#id'] . '" value="' . check_plain($element['#value']) . "\" " . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . " />\n";
 }
 
-/**
- * Format a form token.
- *
- * @ingroup themeable
- */
-function theme_token($element) {
-  return theme('hidden', $element);
-}
-
 /**
  * Format a textfield.
  *
@@ -2286,8 +2221,7 @@ function theme_textfield($element) {
   if (isset($element['#field_suffix'])) {
     $output .= ' <span class="field-suffix">' . $element['#field_suffix'] . '</span>';
   }
-
-  return theme('form_element', $element, $output) . $extra;
+  return $output . $extra;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2337,7 +2271,7 @@ function theme_textarea($element) {
   }
 
   _form_set_class($element, $class);
-  return theme('form_element', $element, '<textarea cols="' . $element['#cols'] . '" rows="' . $element['#rows'] . '" name="' . $element['#name'] . '" id="' . $element['#id'] . '" ' . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . '>' . check_plain($element['#value']) . '</textarea>');
+  return '<textarea cols="' . $element['#cols'] . '" rows="' . $element['#rows'] . '" name="' . $element['#name'] . '" id="' . $element['#id'] . '" ' . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . '>' . check_plain($element['#value']) . '</textarea>';
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2355,7 +2289,7 @@ function theme_textarea($element) {
  */
 
 function theme_markup($element) {
-  return (isset($element['#markup']) ? $element['#markup'] : '') . (isset($element['#children']) ? $element['#children'] : '');
+  return (!empty($element['#markup']) ? $element['#markup'] : '') . drupal_render_children($element);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2375,7 +2309,7 @@ function theme_password($element) {
 
   _form_set_class($element, array('form-text'));
   $output = '<input type="password" name="' . $element['#name'] . '" id="' . $element['#id'] . '" ' . $maxlength . $size . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . ' />';
-  return theme('form_element', $element, $output);
+  return $output;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2388,7 +2322,7 @@ function form_process_weight($element) {
   $element['#options'] = $weights;
   $element['#type'] = 'select';
   $element['#is_weight'] = TRUE;
-  $element += _element_info('select');
+  $element += element_info('select');
   return $element;
 }
 
@@ -2415,7 +2349,7 @@ function form_process_weight($element) {
  */
 function theme_file($element) {
   _form_set_class($element, array('form-file'));
-  return theme('form_element', $element, '<input type="file" name="' . $element['#name'] . '"' . ($element['#attributes'] ? ' ' . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) : '') . ' id="' . $element['#id'] . '" size="' . $element['#size'] . "\" />\n");
+  return '<input type="file" name="' . $element['#name'] . '"' . ($element['#attributes'] ? ' ' . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) : '') . ' id="' . $element['#id'] . '" size="' . $element['#size'] . "\" />\n";
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2423,15 +2357,13 @@ function theme_file($element) {
  *
  * @param element
  *   An associative array containing the properties of the element.
- *   Properties used: title, description, id, required
- * @param $value
- *   The form element's data.
+ *   Properties used: title, description, id, required, children
  * @return
  *   A string representing the form element.
  *
  * @ingroup themeable
  */
-function theme_form_element($element, $value) {
+function theme_form_element($element) {
   // This is also used in the installer, pre-database setup.
   $t = get_t();
 
@@ -2442,7 +2374,7 @@ function theme_form_element($element, $value) {
   $output .= ">\n";
   $required = !empty($element['#required']) ? '<span class="form-required" title="' . $t('This field is required.') . '">*</span>' : '';
 
-  if (!empty($element['#title'])) {
+  if (!empty($element['#title']) && empty($element['#form_element_skip_title'])) {
     $title = $element['#title'];
     if (!empty($element['#id'])) {
       $output .= ' <label for="' . $element['#id'] . '">' . $t('!title: !required', array('!title' => filter_xss_admin($title), '!required' => $required)) . "</label>\n";
@@ -2452,7 +2384,7 @@ function theme_form_element($element, $value) {
     }
   }
 
-  $output .= " $value\n";
+  $output .= " " . $element['#children'] . "\n";
 
   if (!empty($element['#description'])) {
     $output .= ' <div class="description">' . $element['#description'] . "</div>\n";

includes/locale.inc

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ function theme_locale_languages_overview_form($form) {
   }
   $header = array(array('data' => t('English name')), array('data' => t('Native name')), array('data' => t('Code')), array('data' => t('Direction')), array('data' => t('Enabled')), array('data' => t('Default')), array('data' => t('Weight')), array('data' => t('Operations')));
   $output = theme('table', $header, $rows, array('id' => 'language-order'));
-  $output .= drupal_render($form);
+  $output .= drupal_render_children($form);
 
   drupal_add_tabledrag('language-order', 'order', 'sibling', 'language-order-weight');
 

includes/theme.inc

@@ -1584,7 +1584,7 @@ function theme_item_list($items = array(), $title = NULL, $type = 'ul', $attribu
  */
 function theme_list($elements) {
   // Populate any missing array elements with their defaults.
-  $elements += _element_info('list');
+  $elements += element_info('list');
 
   return theme('item_list', $elements['#items'], $elements['#title'], $elements['#list_type'], $elements['#attributes']);
 }

modules/aggregator/aggregator.pages.inc

@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ function theme_aggregator_categorize_items($form) {
   }
   $output .= theme('table', array('', t('Categorize')), $rows);
   $output .= drupal_render($form['submit']);
-  $output .= drupal_render($form);
+  $output .= drupal_render_children($form);
 
   return theme('aggregator_wrapper', $output);
 }

modules/block/block.admin.inc

@@ -403,5 +403,5 @@ function template_preprocess_block_admin_display_form(&$variables) {
     }
   }
 
-  $variables['form_submit'] = drupal_render($variables['form']);
+  $variables['form_submit'] = drupal_render_children($variables['form']);