Suppressing Children Options in booking search

right. There is a feature already for suppressing children but it ONLY suppresses the children drop down in the BLOCK not in the actual search form page. I had good success with the other module we discussed, thanks for your direction on that.

Here is what I am trying to do:

suppress children (hide it and force 0) in the search page.
limit the number of adults to a maximum of 2.

It sounds like a good approach, to simply load the form object, and modify the elements using form alter. So I will add these functions to my new module that I already made.

I will review the code mentioned above and build a couple of form alters from it.

Thank you Lee.....
Franco

thanks for this, I have solved all those issues with a custom module, i chose a different approach than yours, not sure if one is better than the other but here is what I did
suppress children in the search page (I dont use the block)
change adults to persons
Make the number of persons dropdown configurable

// get the max persosn from config
$config['max_persons']=variable_get('rhouse_custom_settings_max_persons', 'need_config');
// hide the children drop down
$form['search']['children']['#type']='hidden';
// change adults to persons
$form['search']['adults']['#title']='persons';
// change button to say "Find a room"
$form['search']['submit']['#value']='Find a Room';

// build an array of persons
for ($i = 1; $i <= $config['max_persons']; $i++) {
    $option_array[$i]=$i;
}

// replace the adult dropdown options with our array
$form['search']['adults']['#options']=$option_array;

I would be happy to upload my module when its done and after I run it through coder and clean it up....

Super, I will, getting Close :)
Thank You

well I was able to accomplish 95% of my goals using a custom module. For any others out there who wish to make changes to the cart panes etc, this should be helpful.

I have introduced a bug with this module though and have spent many hours trying to fix it but was unable to. at best I was able to make it fail nicely without disturbing the user. using the original idea you presented to me in email over the holidays, I have implemented the Room A+ room B = discount concept, however doing so causes the trigger room to not be able to be removed from the cart until its the only one left. So because of this, if you add both to the cart, it applies the discount to the target but that target cannot be removed from the cart until the trigger room is moved first, wish I could figure it out, but hey, 9 out of 10 aint bad.

To summarize this module does the following:

1) Implements a two room combo discount
2) Allows choosing the room NIDs for trigger and target in admin page
3) Allows you to config the Discount name
4) allows you to set the discount amount
5) Suppreses the Children dropdown in the search page (not in the search block)
6) Allows config of max number of adults for dropdown
7) Changes Adults to Persons in search and cart page

If anyone finds this module helpful, thank Lee, the author of uc_hotel, because he practically taught me everything in it.