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Some times you just have to laugh at yourself ... I was just struggling to figure out how to hide the Body field on a new CCK form, and just as I was thinking I might have to resort to some jQuery magic, I finally read the help text under the Body field on the CCK "Submission Form Settings":

To omit the body field for this content type, remove any text and leave this field blank.

This is a tutorial on how to create a view using the Drupal Views module. In this example I'll be creating a simple view of the Drupal 'comments' database table. I'll demonstrate how to create this viewas a Drupal node with an associated URL and menu item, so when you're done you'll be able to access it at a URL like:

Drupal fieldset FAQ: What is the syntax to make a Drupal fieldset (form fieldset) collapsible?

To make a Drupal form fieldset collapsible, just add the "#collapsible" attribute to your Drupal form definition, like this:

Drupal form fields FAQ: What is the syntax to make a Drupal form field (textfield, textarea, password field) required?

To make a Drupal form field required, just use the Drupal form #required attribute, as shown in this required textfield example:

$form['first_name'] = array(
  '#title' => t('First Name'),
  '#type' => 'textfield',
  '#required' => TRUE,
);

As you can see, to set a Drupal form field to be required, you just need to add the #required form attribute, and set it to TRUE.

Drupal form textfield FAQ: How do I set the default value for a textfield in a Drupal form?

Just use the Drupal form "#default_value" tag, like this:

$form['first_name'] = array(
  '#title' => t('First Name'),
  '#type' => 'textfield',
  '#default_value' => 'John',
);

Here's an example of setting the default value of a Drupal textfield to a variable instead of a static text string: