By webbit on

I am creating a module that that will create all the required types for the application. I also wan it to setup the automatic node titles with a set formula.

I have the basic install working fine... Custom_type_instal()...but The automatic title generation option is set to disabled. I see in the auto_node title they defined "AUTO_NODETITLE_ENABLED", but I am not sure how to use it.

I also need to select "Automatically generate the title and hide the title field" in the code and set the format "[node:field_custom_1], [node:field_custom_2]"

Any ideas? This is my first post to this forum. I have searched google and found nothing on this. I also didn't get much information from the auto_nodetitle module.

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

You should be able to use hook_form_alter in your custom module to set those options as desired.

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webbit commented

I see what you mean with http://websmiths.co/blog/very-introduction-drupals-hookformalter.
function custom_example_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){
// target a single form
if($form_id == "page_node_form"){
$form['title']['#title'] = t('New Form Title');
}
}

This will force a custom title in place, but that isn't exactly what I was looking for.

I would like to continue to use the auto_nodetitle module. I want to have it update the "automatic title generation" to "Automatically generate the title and hide the title field" and add a "pattern for the title" (for example "[node:author] , [node:nid]").

Is there any way to update this through the code? I don't even see which table is holding this information.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

You should be able to use hook_form_alter to manipulate the auto nodetitle fields directly (similar to what you've done above for the core title field). Your custom module will need to run after auto_nodetitle so you need to change the weight. Then you need to operate on the node settings form to get at those auto nodetitle settings.

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webbit commented

This is the closest I could find.
http://ericlondon.com/posts/149-overriding-the-node-profile-form-and-aut...

// create a form_alter hook to remove the field from the form:
function MYMODULE_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {

  if ($form_id == 'profile_node_form') {
    // remove title from view
    $form['title']['#access'] = false;
  }
    
}

// create a nodeapi function to create the node title when the node is created
function MYMODULE_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3=NULL, $a4=NULL) {
  if ($node->type =='profile' && $op=='insert') {
    $node->title = $node->field_profile_name_first[0]['value'] . " " . $node->field_profile_name_last[0]['value'];
    node_save($node);       
  }
}

This looks like it will do the same thing, but Still doesn't show how to control auto_nodetitle.

What am I missing? How do I find out where all the arrays are located? I manually set an auto_nodetitle, but couldn't find where it saved it in the database.

Would it be something like this?

function MYMODULE_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {

$form['auto_nodetitle']['ant'][#options] = AUTO_NODETITLE_ENABLED;
$form['auto_nodetitle']['ant_pattern']['#disabled'] = TRUE;
$form['auto_nodetitle']['ant_pattern']['#title'] = node->field1 . ',' . node->field2;
}

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WorldFallz commented

i'm not anywhere I can check atm, but yes it would be something like that. Get the devel module (if you don't have it already), and do a dpm($form); at the top of your form_alter-- that will show you the entire form. Somewhere in there should be the autonodetitle settings you want to modify.