function FormBuilderInterface::submitForm

Same name in other branches
  1. 9 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Form/FormBuilderInterface.php \Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilderInterface::submitForm()
  2. 8.9.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Form/FormBuilderInterface.php \Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilderInterface::submitForm()
  3. 11.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Form/FormBuilderInterface.php \Drupal\Core\Form\FormBuilderInterface::submitForm()

Retrieves, populates, and processes a form.

This function allows you to supply values for form elements and submit a form for processing. Compare to self::getForm(), which also builds and processes a form, but does not allow you to supply values.

There is no return value, but you can check to see if there are errors by calling $form_state->getErrors().

For example:

// Set the administrator role to 'content_editor'.
$values['user_admin_role'] = 'content_editor';
$form_state = new FormState();
$form_state->setValues($values);
\Drupal::formBuilder()->submitForm(RoleSettingsForm::class, $form_state);

@todo Uncomment new method parameters before drupal:11.0.0.

Parameters

\Drupal\Core\Form\FormInterface|string $form_arg: The value must be one of the following:

\Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface $form_state: The current state of the form. Most important is the $form_state->getValues() collection, a tree of data used to simulate the incoming \Drupal::request()->request information from a user's form submission. If a key is not filled in $form_state->getValues(), then the default value of the respective element is used. To submit an unchecked checkbox or other control that browsers submit by not having a \Drupal::request()->request entry, include the key, but set the value to NULL. phpcs:disable Drupal.Commenting

mixed ...$args: Any additional arguments are passed on to the functions called by self::submitForm(), including the unique form constructor function. For example, the node_edit form requires that a node object be passed in here when it is called. Arguments that need to be passed by reference should not be included here, but rather placed directly in the $form_state build info array so that the reference can be preserved. For example, a form builder function with the following signature:

function my_module_form($form, FormStateInterface &$form_state, &$object) {
}

would be called via self::submitForm() as follows:

$form_state->setValues($my_form_values);
$form_state->addBuildInfo('args', [
    &$object,
]);
\Drupal::formBuilder()->submitForm('my_module_form', $form_state);

phpcs:enable

See also

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3354672

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Form/FormBuilderInterface.php, line 190

Class

FormBuilderInterface
Provides an interface for form building and processing.

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Form

Code

public function submitForm($form_arg, FormStateInterface &$form_state);

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