| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 5 / 5 |
| Reliability | 4.5 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 4.5 / 5 |
| Documentation | 5 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 2 |
Description Drupal 6's Forms API is great, but its AHAH support (a technique similar to AJAX) is lacking. You have to write a menu callback for every AHAH-enabled form item of your form. This is time consuming, hard to maintain and hard to write tests for. Not to mention that the code for those menu... [More...]
| Maintainer: | Wim Leers |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Developer, Javascript Utilities |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-2.2 | 2011-Jul-11 | Download | Recommended |
| 6.x-2.x-dev | 2011-Jul-11 | Download | Development |
| 6.x-1.0 | 2008-Aug-29 | Download | Other |
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This module was a great help for developing forms with AHAH, made life a lot easier and was good to see the steps we were taking in our custom AHAH handlers are very close to how this module handles them.
The fact it comes with great comments in code and a demo module adds to my love for a well documented module which does it's job well.
Caveat:
The latest stable version needs two patches, one on line 255 to remove a pass by reference error and to have teh array_smart_merge wrapped in an "If module exists" logic block because this array is declared in hierarchical select as well.
Whenever I'm creating an AHAH form in Drupal I use the AHAH helper module. It just makes the process so much simpler and cleaner so I can worry about the form logic and not the AHAH part.
The only "problem" I've had so far is if you embed a view in the form markup and that view has a pager, the pager links don't work because they are linked to the ahah_helper URL instead of the original $_GET['q'].
I will be giving a talk about creating AHAH forms in Santa Cruz soon and will be using AHAH Helper in the presentation. I may end up doing the same one at DrupalCon SF as well.
Kudos!
Kristen
http://kristen.org
