getForm

The getForm allows to manipulate the generation of the forms. It passes the form object and the current form output buffer as arguments and expects a string as return value.

Parameters

  1. \Contao\FormModel $form

    Database result set from table tl_form as a \Contao\FormModel instance.

  2. string $buffer

    The generated form buffer.

Return Values

Return $buffer or your custom modification.

Example

// src/EventListener/GetFormListener.php
namespace App\EventListener;

use Contao\CoreBundle\ServiceAnnotation\Hook;
use Contao\FormModel;

/**
 * @Hook("getForm")
 */
class GetFormListener
{
    public function __invoke(FormModel $form, string $buffer): string
    {
        if (2 === (int) $form->id) {
            // Do something …
        }

        return $buffer;
    }
}

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