[pmwiki-users] ?action=rename doesn't work

[John Rankin]

On Wednesday, 16 March 2005 6:45 AM, Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have installed the rename.php script from 
>http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RenamePage .
>
>The rename action page does come up as it should. However, after 
>changing the page and clicking "Rename", all I get is the Wiki's default 
>page.
>
>Some debugging sessions later, I found that the postrename action 
>defined in the rename.php script isn't called. The "Rename" button calls 
>the $ScriptURL allright, with all the appropriate POST parameters, but 
>somehow pmwiki.php doesn't execute the action that should be
>triggered.
>
>I'm pretty sure that pmwiki.php is called with invalid parameters, but I 
>don't know what that SDV function really does and how it should be 
>called, so I can't fix the problem.
>
>Here's what the "Rename" button does (as gleaned from the HTML generated 
>for it):
>It sends a POST request to $ScriptUrl (with no parameters - not sure 
>whether that's right), with the following POST variables set:
>   action = postrename
>   n = $FullName
>   renametext = new text as entered
>   group = new group as picked from the drop-down list
>
>Anybody got an idea what's going wrong here?

It sounds as if it might have broken on a newer beta than the one 
it was developed and tested on. I'll look into it.

Thanks for letting me know.

-- 
JR
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John Rankin