Rename function on the fly

[jkurrle]

Ok, I'm stumped.

I have a function that identifies form names on a page and puts them into an array. Looks like this:

$formIdArray=array();

//implements Drupal's "hook_form_alter"... 
function forumModify_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id)
  {
  echo "Form ID is $form_id<br />";
  global $formIdArray[]=$form_id;
  }

The next hook I need to implement is hook_form_formID_alter(), where formID is replaced with the name of the form that I got from the first hook_form_alter(). My question is how do I create a dynamic function name, that changes based on the name of the form extracted from the hook above.

example: My hook_form_alter() method gives me two forms on the page, forum_form_forum and search_form_forum. I need to create hooks that act like this:

function hook_form_search_form_forum_alter(&$form, &$form_state)

function hook_form_forum_form_forum_alter(&$form, &$form_state)

The function code within each function will be identical, I just need to make the function names on the fly. I realize it might be done if I install the RunKit PECL library, but I was hoping to avoid that.

Any ideas?

BTW, I hate Drupal...

[Krik]

Maybe a class would work

class MyFormClass{

function __construct(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
    echo "Form ID is $form_id<br />";
    global $formIdArray[]=$form_id;
}
}

$hook_form_search_form_forum_alter = new MyFormClass($val1, $val2, $val3);

$hook_form_forum_form_forum_alter = new MyFormClass($val1, $val2, $val3);

[NogDog]

Not sure I understand why you need this (and I'm to lazy today to reread to try to figure it out 😉 ), but maybe something with [man]create_function/man or anonymous functions could help? (You would then call the function by a variable name.)