Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Changing the function of the "save" button

[Tim B. <tim...@wc...>]

On Thursday 24 January 2002 11:00 am, Lawrence Akka wrote:
> Sorry - been a bit busy with the day job!

Darn...I thought I asked a stumper!

>
> Where do you want the timestamp to appear?  

At the beginning of the line where the individual editing the page started 
typing.

> On the page itself?  

Yes, so the data is recorded in my postgresql database for future reference.  
Reports and the like.

> That's not
> too hard.  In fact, if you browse a page, you can see at the bottom a line
> which says "Last edited on ..."  Is that enough for you?  

Unfortunately, no.  I need to be able to go back and see when each entry was 
made, so I need a permanent record of it to show up on the page itself.  

> Or do you want
> the timestamp next to the changes that have been made?  That's a bit
> harder.  If you do, what happens if someone edits two different parts of
> the same page?
>

Good point.  Edicut on the page will be to append to the end.  This will be 
observed by all using it.

> You can always see the date and time of any change by looking at
> RecentChanges, or PageHistory.
>

I was unaware of that.  I looked at it, but it would be a bit cumbersome when 
trying to determine when specific entries were made.  I would like the 
chronology to appear on the page itself.  I added a line to the editpage.html

I added this line to the very begining...

$ldt=date("Y-m-d G:m:s");

and added this line further down ...

<form method="post" action="${BROWSE}EditPage">
<textarea class="wikiedit"
          name="content"
          rows="${EDIT_AREA_HEIGHT}"
          cols="${EDIT_AREA_WIDTH}"
          wrap="virtual">$FORMVARS[content]
 <? echo $ldt ?></textarea>            <-----THIS IS THE LINE I ADDED

which does what I wish, but it happens too late.  It happens the *next* time 
I push the edit button.  Which is one save too late.  

One of my co-workers suggested that I add a database table with the timestamp 
and extract it and print it to the screen at the beginning of the 
savepage.php script, which seems like a good idea, if I knew what I was doing 
and how to do it.  Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim

> Lawrence
>
> At 16:08 24/01/2002, Tim Bogart wrote:
> >Well,  I must have asked a stumper because nobody has responded to this
> >question.
> >
> >After other inquires, it has been suggested to me that I put a table in
> > the wiki database which contains some sort of time stamp and extract it
> > at save time.  This sounds like the best idea to me.  Could somebody
> > please give me an idea how to do this?
> >
> >TIA,
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >On Tuesday 22 January 2002 01:32 pm, Tim Bogart wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Please bare with me folks.  I'm not a programmer.  I don't even play
> > > one on TV.  I would like to change the function of the edit button on
> > > my wiki so that it performs a time stamp along with save it does.  I
> > > know from reading the php docs that php does have a time stamp function
> > > based on the system clock.
> > >
> > > How would I go about incorporating this enhancement?
> > >
> > > As always, TIA.
> > >
> > > Tim B.
> > >
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