The data will be sent to your submit handling function - if you wish to persist the data, you can either manually store it in a db table, or you could programatically create a node containing the data. See the section "Submitting Forms" in http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/topics/forms_api.html/6
The short answer is yes, you have to do it yourself :) Best, William On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Salvador Benimeli <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Victor, > > My problem is, after submitting a form, post values are automatically > persisted by Drupal or have I to do myself?? > > Thanks a lot > > > 2009/7/30 Victor Kane <[email protected]> > > What is great about Drupal is that when you create a content type, even >> using CCK module and defining extra custom fields, everything is >> automagically persisted in the database and may be retrieved as nodes. You >> don't have to worry about that. >> >> And, Drupal has a contributed module which is really practically part of >> Drupal itself (no-one develops any serious sites without using it and CCK): >> the Views module, which is a query generator so you don't have to use SQL to >> list your nodes. There is a powerful graphical interface which allows you to >> create your query on the fly and even shows you a preview of the list you >> will be getting. >> >> The views module (http://drupal.org/project/views) also allows you to >> create as many displays of the view (Page/Block/RSS etc.) as you like. >> >> That's why everyone is flocking to Drupal! >> >> Victor Kane >> http://awebfactory.com.ar >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Salvador Benimeli <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm new to Drupal, and after looking FAPI documentation there are some >>> kind of things that are not clear to me. >>> >>> Where go the data once the form has been submitted?? The data submitted >>> on a form is stored as a node or other kind of content or have I to create a >>> table on the database and storing post values inside that table??? >>> >>> How can I create a view where I can show all the data that has been >>> submitted??? >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >> >> >
