Chapter 11. The Form API
Drupal features an application programming interface (API) for generating, validating, and processing HTML forms. The form API abstracts forms into a nested array of properties and values. The array is then rendered as part of the process when Drupal renders the page that contains the form. There are several implications of this approach:
Rather than output HTML, we create an array and let the engine generate the HTML.
Since we are dealing with a representation of the form as structured data, we can add, delete, reorder, and change forms. This is especially handy when you want to modify a form created by a different module in a clean and unobtrusive way.
Any form element can be mapped to any theme function.
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