Custom Plugin to Process Form

Question

I am building a custom plugin to process a form. I am new to custom plugins and after looking at several different tutorials I am stuck on my form action. I would like to access the process form method in the class, is this correct with EE and if so, how do I go about it.

Thanks.

class Myform {

public function __construct()
{
    $this->EE =& get_instance();
}

public function form()
{

    $form_data = array(
        "id"    => $this->EE->TMPL->form_id,
        "class" => $this->EE->TMPL->form_class,
        "action" => //process_form()
    );

    $tagdata = $this->EE->TMPL->tagdata;

    $form = $this->EE->functions->form_declaration($form_data) . $tagdata . "</form>";

    return $form;
}

public function process_form()
{
    return "testing";
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------------

/**
 * Usage
 *
 * Plugin Usage
 *
 * @access  public
 * @return  string
 */
function usage()
{
    ob_start(); 
    ?>

    Documentation will go here

    <?php
    $buffer = ob_get_contents();

    ob_end_clean(); 

    return $buffer;
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

} // END CLASS

Answer 1

You create a plugin or module? Because actions is using in Modules. You can add new action to the system using next query (usually in function install):

$sql[] = "INSERT INTO exp_actions (class, method) VALUES ('module_name', 'my_action_procedure')";

how to get action id for specific method:

 $form_data = array(
        "id"    => $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('form_id',''),
        "class" => $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('form_class',''),
        "action" => ee()->functions->fetch_action_id('module_name', 'process_form');
    );

if you don't want to develop module, just give user option to add another template name as base for processing form, like

{ext:myform process_uri="home/process" form_id="my-form" form_class="super-form-class"}

home/process

{ext:my_plugin:process_form}