[pmwiki-devel] Question about Forms & Actions

[Ben Stallings]

Hans wrote:
>> I realize I may be the only person who's ever tried putting ZAP in an
>> EditForm, but once you see it in action, so to speak, you'll all want to
>> do it.  ;-)
> 
> I am curious how you set that up / what your Editform source looks like.

OK, by popular demand, here's the EditForm hack...

Put the following lines into config.php or some recipe (mine is 
currently in DataQuery, though I'll move it out of there soon as I'm 
dividing what was to be DataQuery into a series of more specialized 
recipes):

$group = FmtPageName('$Group',$pagename);
$name = FmtPageName('$Name',$pagename);
$specialpages = array('EditForm','RecentChanges','GroupHeader', 
'GroupFooter','GroupAttributes','PageActions','SideBar');
if ((PageExists($group.".EditForm")) and !in_array($name,$specialpages)) 
and ($name != $group)) $PageEditForm = '$Group.EditForm';

You can then create a custom EditForm or ZAP form for each page group. 
Be sure to use the {*$Var} syntax to get ZAP values from the included 
page or {*$:Var} for page text variables.

I'll plan to have a working demo of this up sometime tomorrow.  Sorry 
it's taken so long... I'm easily distracted lately.  --Ben