[Semediawiki-user] DirectEdit 0.1 alpha - directedit, saveandcontinue, improved save

[Stephan G. <f....@gm...>]

Hi,

I build an extension that allows making adjustments to articles without
having to go to the "edit with form" page. E.g. I have an "Action" form
here. With this extension I can now set an action to "Finished" by just
clicking on a link instead of having to go and edit the form. I just
include something like the following on my action page:

{{#directedit:link text=Finish this action.
|target=myAction
|form=Action
|link type=link
|query string=Action[State]=Finished
}}

This shows a link that, when clicked, modifies the target and shows a
result message. The query string works as for formlink. Link type can be
link or button.
What else? You can set "ok text", "error text" and "warning text" as
parameters. I usually do something like "ok text=[[File:Happy.gif|link=]]".

Since it is really nearly the same functionality, the second thing I put
in is the parser function {{#saveandcontinue:}}. You can include it in
any form. It shows up there as a button much like the "Save page"
button. It saves the article, but does not leave the form, so you can
continue editing.

Finally the extension overrides the normal "Save page" action with the
in-build mechanism. The advantage is, that there is only one page load
instead of two. This means, the back-button of the browser works now as
expected, i.e. it takes you back to the form.

You can download the extension at
http://code.google.com/p/semanticformsinputs/downloads or get it via
Subversion using
svn export http://semanticformsinputs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/DirectEdit

Installation as usual: Extract to the extensions directory of your wiki
and require_once in LocalSettings.php. You can tweak the appearance of
links and buttons via the included CSS files.

I tried this on FF, Google Chrome, IE8 and it seemed to work alright.
But there are loads of bugs left for sure, so any bug reports are very
much welcome.

Cheers,
Stephan