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<p class="posted text-light">22nd December 2015</p>
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<p>I recently had my first experience using the <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/entityform">Entityform module</a> in a project. It was quite easy to configure with different form types, but then I needed to embed the form into an overlay. I was expecting to use the <code>drupal_get_form()</code> function and render it, but this didn’t work.</p>
<p>Here are the steps that I took to be able to load, render and embed the form.</p>
<h2 id="loading-the-form">Loading the Form</h2>
<p>The first thing that I needed to do to render the form was to load an empty instance of the entityform using <code>entityform_empty_load()</code>. In this example, <code>newsletter</code> is the name of my form type.</p>
<pre><code class="language-php">$form = entityform_empty_load('newsletter');
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<p>This returns an instance of a relevant <code>Entityform</code> object.</p>
<h2 id="rendering-the-form">Rendering the Form</h2>
<p>The next step was to be able to render the form. I did this using the <code>entity_form_wrapper()</code> function.</p>
<p>As this function is within the <code>entityform.admin.inc</code> file and not autoloaded by Drupal, I needed to include it using <code>module_load_include()</code> so that the function was available.</p>
<pre><code class="language-php">module_load_include('inc', 'entityform', 'entityform.admin');
$output = entityform_form_wrapper($form, 'submit', 'embedded'),
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<p>The first argument is the <code>Entityform</code> object that was created in the previous step (I’ve <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2639584">submitted a patch</a> to type hint this within entityform so that it’s clearer what is expected), which is required.</p>
<p>The other two arguments are optional. The second argument is the mode (<code>submit</code> is the default value), and the last is the form context. <code>page</code> is the default value, for use on the submit page, however I changed this to <code>embedded</code>.</p>
<p>I could then pass this result into my theme function to render it successfully within the relevant template file.</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/entityform">The entityform module</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2639584">My issue and patch to add the type hint to the entityform_form_wrapper function</a></li>
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