[pmwiki-users] Default form markup questions...

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Aug 24 13:05:00 CDT 2006


On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:39:47AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Is there any existing way to use page variables to set default for
> textarea values?
> 
> It seems the markup could be modified as simply as:
> 
> (:input textarea <name> <rows> <cols> :) {$value} (:input textareaend:)
> 
> to output
> 
> <textarea name="name"> Value </textarea>

Not easily, because the existing (:input textarea ...:) tag already
generates the closing </textarea> markup.  So, we'd have to do
some lookahead for an (:input textareaend:), and there are some other
nasty interactions that would need to be handled.

And, of course, it's not clear what would happen if {$value} itself
contained the text "(:input textareaend:)".  :-)

> Could the standard markup script possibly be modified for this? If
> not, I was wondering why.  I might need to add this to the FAST Data
> project otherwise.

We can see about coming up with ways to pre-fill textarea boxes;
I just hadn't come up with one that I liked yet (and there haven't 
been many requests for it, so PmWikiPhilosophy #3 applies).

> Also, on the same subject, are there any alternate markups that allow
> you to set the default values for radio boxes or select boxes without
> having to use an endless bunch of conditionals. 

My plans have been to do this through the $InputValues array, but ...

> I envision something > like:
> 
> (:select <name> default="option2" value1|display1 value2|display2 etc :)
> 
> or likewise
> 
> (:radio <name> default="option2" value1 value2 etc :)

What does "option2" refer to in each case?  And in the case of the 
(:radio ...:) markup, what HTML output do you expect it to generate?

For select boxes, my plan is still to implement (:input select ...:)
as outlined at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00567, I just
need sufficient available time + motivation to do it.  :-)

Pm




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