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Duplicate the Save / Preview / Delete buttons

Tue, 23/02/2010 - 11:41 — gbain22

Hi everyone,

I am currently using the Polpo admin theme with Drupal 6 - I notice there's always lots of scrolling to go down to the bottom of the page in order to use the Save/Preview/Delete menu - I wondered if there's a way to duplicate these buttons at the top of the page (or better yet, in a Block).

I had a look in page.tpl.php and notice that all the main editing of content runs through $content so I can access it via that. I tried copying the html but then you will obviously need the "form action="/node/edit/1" " or whatever particular node you are editing.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Cheers, Garry.

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Wed, 24/02/2010 - 07:41 — darren
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hook_form_alter

The 'Rubik' admin theme by Development seed does this, but I've not looked at how. You could do this by implementing hook_form_alter in a module, like this:

<?php
function mymodulename_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
  if (!empty($form['buttons'])) {
    foreach ($form['buttons'] as $name => $button) {
      $form["$name-dupe"] = $button;
      $form["$name-dupe"]['#weight'] -= 100;
    }
  }
}
?>

That just copies all the buttons and moves them to the top of the form.