Re: [Phpwiki-talk] forms in PhpWiki

[Ben H. <ph...@gr...>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:45:19AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have a form I want my users to fill out.
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> What I would like is a wiki page that contains fields they fill out.
> The result of submitting the form would be the creation of a wiki page
> using the contents of the data they entered.
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Looking at the CreatePage plugin...

I see that you can create pages of a certain name, and use a template.
That might be enough to solve my immediate dilemma - have just a
templated wiki page that the users fill out instead of a form.  It's ok,
since my users are all wiki-wise. =20

However, I'm confused about how one would use the 'vars' option to the
plugin. =20

I ran a test like this:
> Make Orange's page here: <?plugin-form CreatePage template=3DBenTestTempl=
 s=3DBenTest/FirstTest vars=3D"name=3DOrange&age=3D32" ?>

and my template (BenTestTempl) has this:
> !My name is %%name%%
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> my age is %%age%%

It worked as expected.  There was a form box to fill out that had
"Bentest/FirstTest" as its default value.  Clicking on the button
created the page of the name I filled out in the box, and the page
created had "My name is Orange.  My age is 32" in its content.

My question:

What is the use of the vars?  I can't change them as a user of the page.
If I'm going to go to the trouble of writing out the (slightly complex,
relative to regular wiki-speak) plugin thing, must I hardcode my
variables there? =20

I think I'm missing something.  How can I pull these variables in to
some sort of dynamic content, so I can ask someone what their name is
and how old they are, and then create the page using that information. =20

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't see the point of having
variables in the page if they're going to be hardcoded in the calling
page, so I am convinced that I'm just missing part of the right way to
use the plugin.=20

Comments?

Thanks,

-ben


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Ben Hartshorne
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