Allow modules to react on/participate in form_state_values_clean()

Created on 12 October 2010, over 14 years ago

Updated 1 April 2025, 1 day ago

Now that Drupal 7 has the standardized facility of cleaning out submitted form values prior to storing them, we should

1) make sure that it's actually used throughout core.

2) give modules a chance to possibly clean their internal values, too. (I have a concrete use-case for that.)

On 2), the simple drupal_alter() helps modules that inject additional form elements into a form, allowing them to remove the submitted form values for those elements before the primary submit handler goes along and stores all submitted form values in the database (most often, that is some kind of serialization process).

📌 Task

Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

forms system

Created by

🇩🇪Germany sun Karlsruhe

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Enhances an existing API or introduces a new subsystem. Depending on the size and impact, possibly backportable to earlier major versions.

Needs backport to D7
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stale-issue-cleanup
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Comment 1 day ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!

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