tripal/tripal_helpers/tripal_helper_form/tripal_helper_form.module

<?php


/**
 * taken from http://www.akchauhan.com/create-drupal-form-using-theme_table-like-module-list-form/
 * following as function theme_featured_product_form($form)
 * 
 * to be run as a regular function, within a module's theme function implementation
 */

function tripal_helper_form_themeform($form, $field_keys){
	$rows = array();
	foreach (element_children($form) as $key) {
		$row = array();
		if (isset($form[$key]['name'])) {
 
			$status = drupal_render($form['row_checkboxes'][$key]);
			$row[] = array(’data’ => $status, ‘class’ => ‘checkbox’);
 
 			$bool_first = TRUE;
 			foreach ($field_keys as $field_key => $value) {
				if($bool_first){
					$row[] = ‘‘. drupal_render($form[$key][$value]) .’‘;//for "bold style"
					$bool_first = FALSE;
				}
				else{
					$row[] = array(’data’ => drupal_render($form[$key][$value]),);
				}
			}
 
			$rows[] = $row;
		}
	}

	// Individual table headers.
	$header = array();
	$header[] = array(’data’ => t(’Select’), ‘class’ => ‘checkbox’);
	
	foreach ($field_keys as $key => $value) {
		$header[] = t("'$value'");
	}
 
	$output = theme(’table’, $header, $rows);
	$output .= drupal_render($form);
	dpm($output, 'formoutput');
	return $output;
}

function tripal_helper_form_createformdata($form, $query_results, $data_array){
	dpm($form, 'createform');
	dpm($query_results, 'createqeuryresults');
	dpm($data_array, 'createarray');
	
	// $status = array();
	$options = array();
	
	foreach ($query_results as $qr_key => $qr_value) {
		$options[$qr_key] = '';
		
		foreach ($data_array as $da_key => $da_value) {
			dpm($qr_value->$da_value, '$da_value');
			$form[$qr_key][$da_value] = array('#value' => $qr_value->$da_value);
			
		}
		// $status[] = '-1';
	}
	
	$form['row_checkboxes'] = array(
		'#type' => 'checkboxes',
		'#options' => $options,
		// '#default_value' => $status,
	);
	
	// $form['submit'] = array(
		// '#type' => 'submit',
		// '#value' => t('Remove'),
	// );
// 	
	// $form['cancel'] = array(
		// '#type' => 'markup',
		// '#value' => l(t('Cancel'), 'dashboard'),
	// );
	
	
	
	return $form;
}