Sandu Camerzan

Hello again, fellow Drupalers!

So you are working on a multilanguage site, and you want to make the nice transition to no path prefix ”/” for your default language. But first, you want to select your default language. You have looked in the admin/config/regional/language. But it is not there, despite your intuitive navigation of the admin pages. And maybe, because in Drupal 6, that was exactly where you found them. Where is it? 

Once again, a quick solution for an aching problem.

I needed to configure the CKFinder for file uploads for the CKEditor on a multisite Drupal 7 install - including this blog and some other family projects - and the idea was to take it in the libraries section, outside the module folder, so all sites can use the same library.

The traditional "sites/all/modules" works as well, but using libraries I consider always the best option: Updating code, updating commonly used libraries, gives a better view of the tools used on site etc.

So my approach was:

First of all, I am not sure if the "wrapper" form term is legal or if anyone has already coined it, but it's exactly what I'd like to call the forms I will present in this tutorial. They are basically forms that are "wrapped" around any other Drupal form, with the scope of overriding certain aspects of it.

When would we use this type of forms:

1. When we have a form with additional params. Example:  function MY_MODULE_form($form_state, $node, $user){ /* content */ };
2. When the form we want to use doesn't have checks for values already set in $form_state, used in the form generation;
3. When the form we want to use doesn't have other modules do hook_form_alter() modifications to it;

On the rest of the cases, I believe using hook_form_alter() and hook_form_FORM_ID_alter() is the way to go.