Creating and managing forms

In this section, let's learn how to create new forms and manage them.

Creating a new form

In Drupal 7, a form was a function that returned an array containing nested elements from the Form API. Then, you would add appropriate _validate and _submit functions to handle verifying the submission and to handle the completed form in a simple case that would look as follows:

function my_module_my_form($form, &$form_state) 
  $form['first'] = array( 
    '#type' => 'textfield', 
    '#title' => t('First name'), 
    '#required' => TRUE, 
  ); 
  $form['last'] = array( 
    '#type' => 'textfield', 
    '#title' => t('Last name'), 
    '#required' => TRUE, 
  ); 
  $form['submit'] = array( 
    '#type' => 'submit', 
    '#value' => 'Submit', 
  ); 
 
  return $form; 
} 
 
function my_module_my_form_validate($form, &$form_state) { 
  // Handle form validation 
} 
 
function my_module_my_form_submit($form, &$form_state) { 
  // Handle form...