Re: [Phpwiki-talk] forms in PhpWiki

[Reini U. <rei...@gm...>]

Sorry, that I have to be very short.
Look at WikiFormRich together with CreatePage.

On 10/19/05, Ben Hartshorne <ph...@gr...> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:45:19AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> > I have a form I want my users to fill out.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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.
>
> However, I'm confused about how one would use the 'vars' option to the
> plugin.
>
> I ran a test like this:
> > Make Orange's page here: <?plugin-form CreatePage template=3DBenTestTem=
pl s=3DBenTest/FirstTest vars=3D"name=3DOrange&age=3D32" ?>
>
> and my template (BenTestTempl) has this:
> > !My name is %%name%%
> >
> > 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.