From dbb5457cfe2fc016b1ab2e3ee0c8585478bb7360 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Angie Byron <webchick@24967.no-reply.drupal.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:20:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #527804 by sun: Add an alter hook for element_info() to
change default values of form elements.
---
includes/common.inc | 2 ++
modules/system/system.api.php | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/includes/common.inc b/includes/common.inc
index 2de18d1fe356..2a84bffd14ec 100644
--- a/includes/common.inc
+++ b/includes/common.inc
@@ -3987,6 +3987,8 @@ function element_info($type) {
$cache[$element_type]['#type'] = $element_type;
}
}
+ // Allow modules to alter the element type defaults.
+ drupal_alter('element_info', $cache);
}
return $cache[$type];
diff --git a/modules/system/system.api.php b/modules/system/system.api.php
index 7aead6c9b9b6..8986270b2942 100644
--- a/modules/system/system.api.php
+++ b/modules/system/system.api.php
@@ -115,6 +115,24 @@ function hook_elements() {
return $type;
}
+/**
+ * Alter the element type information returned from modules.
+ *
+ * A module may implement this hook in order to alter the element type defaults
+ * defined by a module.
+ *
+ * @param &$type
+ * All element type defaults as collected by hook_elements().
+ *
+ * @see hook_elements()
+ */
+function hook_element_info_alter(&$type) {
+ // Decrease the default size of textfields.
+ if (isset($type['textfield']['#size'])) {
+ $type['textfield']['#size'] = 40;
+ }
+}
+
/**
* Perform cleanup tasks.
*
--
GitLab