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title: Programmatically Load an Entityform in Drupal 7
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date: 2015-12-22
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excerpt: How to programmatically load, render and embed an entityform in Drupal 7.
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tags:
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- drupal
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- drupal-7
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- drupal-planet
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- entityform
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---
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I recently had my first experience using the
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[Entityform module](https://www.drupal.org/project/entityform) in a project. It
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was quite easy to configure with different form types, but then I needed to
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embed the form into an overlay. I was expecting to use the `drupal_get_form()`
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function and render it, but this didn’t work.
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Here are the steps that I took to be able to load, render and embed the form.
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## Loading the Form
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The first thing that I needed to do to render the form was to load an empty
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instance of the entityform using `entityform_empty_load()`. In this example,
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`newsletter` is the name of my form type.
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```php
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$form = entityform_empty_load('newsletter');
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```
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This returns an instance of a relevant `Entityform` object.
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## Rendering the Form
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The next step was to be able to render the form. I did this using the
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`entity_form_wrapper()` function.
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As this function is within the `entityform.admin.inc` file and not autoloaded by
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Drupal, I needed to include it using `module_load_include()` so that the
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function was available.
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```php
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module_load_include('inc', 'entityform', 'entityform.admin');
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$output = entityform_form_wrapper($form, 'submit', 'embedded'),
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```
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The first argument is the `Entityform` object that was created in the previous
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step (I’ve [submitted a patch](https://www.drupal.org/node/2639584) to type hint
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this within entityform so that it’s clearer what is expected), which is
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required.
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The other two arguments are optional. The second argument is the mode (`submit`
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is the default value), and the last is the form context. `page` is the default
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value, for use on the submit page, however I changed this to `embedded`.
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I could then pass this result into my theme function to render it successfully
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within the relevant template file.
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## Resources
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- [The entityform module](https://www.drupal.org/project/entityform)
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- [My issue and patch to add the type hint to the entityform_form_wrapper function](https://www.drupal.org/node/2639584)
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