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Drupal forms: don't forget your treeDrupal forms: don't forget your tree
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 23, 2007 - 3:54pm
$form['place_taxonomy']['#tree'] = TRUE; // this was so important and so easy to overlook
If you're working with or creating complex forms, and can't figure out why your, oh, 'place_taxonomy' form data isn't getting to your place_taxonomy_node_save($node, $terms) function -- for example -- even though your hook_nodeapi implementation is most definitely pointing your 'insert' and 'update' operations (or 'op's, as we at Agaric affectionately call them), you may be able to save yourself the trouble of sticking in a drupal_set_message('<pre>' . print_r($node, TRUE) . '</pre>'); to debug.
Check that you have set your tree to TRUE. Otherwise, only the last value in the chain gets passed-- $form['place_taxonomy'][1][20] becomes merely an absurd $form['20'].
(All the above is purely hypothetical and never happens to Agaric. We're professionals.)
Resolution
$form['base_of_complex_array']['#tree'] = TRUE;
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