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Creating a configuration settings form for your module

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    In the previous chapter, we discussed hook_form_alters.
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    And in the example, we altered a form to make sure users did not use the password,
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    password, 12345, or love, and it was a hard-coded array that we created.
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    And in this chapter, instead of using a hard-coded array,
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    we actually want to make a configuration form
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    so administrators can add to, augment, or change that list.
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    A system settings form, when you click admin, will show up there in the list,
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    of all possible things an administrator can do on your site.
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    So to get started, we actually need to first create a page for these.
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    So I'm going to go into my code,

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Creating a Configuration Settings Form for Your Module

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22 minutes 40 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

This video goes through the process of creating a configuration form in order to save settings to the variables table in the database, and how to integrate those variables into your module.

Correction

The $item array in the function demo_menu() should be named $items, to match the return $items; line. (Either that or return $items; should be fixed to return $item;.) Just make sure the array you are building matches the name of the variable you are returning.

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