function form_process_autocomplete

Process function to prepare autocomplete data.

Parameters

$element: A textfield or other element with a #autocomplete_path.

Return value

array The processed form element.

Related topics

File

includes/form.inc, line 4025

Code

function form_process_autocomplete($element) {
    $element['#autocomplete_input'] = array();
    if ($element['#autocomplete_path'] && drupal_valid_path($element['#autocomplete_path'])) {
        $element['#autocomplete_input']['#id'] = $element['#id'] . '-autocomplete';
        // Force autocomplete to use non-clean URLs since this protects against the
        // browser interpreting the path plus search string as an actual file.
        $current_clean_url = isset($GLOBALS['conf']['clean_url']) ? $GLOBALS['conf']['clean_url'] : NULL;
        $GLOBALS['conf']['clean_url'] = 0;
        // Force the script path to 'index.php', in case the server is not
        // configured to find it automatically. Normally it is the responsibility
        // of the site to do this themselves using hook_url_outbound_alter() (see
        // url()) but since this code is forcing non-clean URLs on sites that don't
        // normally use them, it is done here instead.
        $element['#autocomplete_input']['#url_value'] = url($element['#autocomplete_path'], array(
            'absolute' => TRUE,
            'script' => 'index.php',
        ));
        $GLOBALS['conf']['clean_url'] = $current_clean_url;
    }
    return $element;
}