Re: [Phpwiki-talk] forms in PhpWiki

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

Sorry, I can answer these detailed questions after my holidays.
Thursday I'll be back.

On 10/19/05, Ben Hartshorne <ph...@gr...> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:38:01AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> > Sorry, that I have to be very short.
> > Look at WikiFormRich together with CreatePage.
>
> I'm having trouble making them work together.
>
> Here's the page BenTestTempl:
> > !! QA test sheet for %%name%%
> >
> > * Robot name: %%robot%%
> > * data: %%data%%
>
> Here's the page BenTest:
> >    <?plugin WikiFormRich action=3DCreatePage
> >             hidden[] name=3Dtemplate value=3D"BenTestTempl"
> >             editbox[] name=3Ds text=3D"Enter new page name here" value=
=3D"BenTest/RobotName"
> >             editbox[] name=3Dname text=3D"your name goes here"
> >             editbox[] name=3Drobot
> >             editbox[] name=3Dexclude value=3D"" ?>
>
> First problem - you can't have a 'text' field as well as a 'value'
> field. It doesn't match the closing quote, so in the above example, the
> label of the exitbox becomes
> > Enter new page name here" value=3D"benTest/RobotName"
> and the actual initial value of the editbox is empty.  If you reverse
> the order of the two, the initial value of the box gets the whole string
> and the name is default.

The order of WikiFormRich options is important and quite fragile.

> Second problem - while the variables 's' and 'template' seem to have an
> effect (it creates the page of the name entered in 's' and uses the
> template defined), none of the others seem to be interpolated into the
> created file.  For example, in the template above, %%name%% does not get
> translated into the value I entered into the 'name' field.

This should work and worked as I tested it. I'll try to fix it if it's
broken ASAP.

>
> Question - what sort of formatting rules may I apply?  For example, how
> would I get the box text on the left side instead of the right
>
> >  your name goes here: ___________
> instead of
> > __________ your name goes here
>
> Can I adjust the size of text-entry boxes (I think I saw that option
> somewhere else...

I had an option to leave out <br>
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Reini Urban
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