[pmwiki-users] Recipe for adding links to a page

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

Hi

I very frequently add links to a wiki page, basically I'm using some wiki 
pages to keep a list of useful links. It's kind of annoying having to do 
the this using the 'Edit page' functionality, so I was thinking about 
other alternatives.

One way could be to have a special directive that enables a markup such as 

	(:place-link-adding-form-at-the-end-of-this-page:)

which would add a form at the end of the page, which you could use to add 
a link to the current page. The information that needs to be added should 
in general simply be the following:

* The link URI
* The link text
* An optional short description/comment
* Prefix for the entry, which should default to '*'

The form data should simply be appended to the page as follows:

  <prefix> ''[['' <link-text> ''->'' <link-URI> '']]'' ''&mdash;'' <comment>


Now, I have a pretty good feeling that all the basic tools for creating 
this recipe is already in PmWiki... so I'd just like some pointers to what 
I should be using (as well as thoughts on the idea in general of course).

For instance, isn't there already a recipe for doing form stuff in 
general? Could that be used to generate the relevant forms? In that case, 
perhaps there's no need for a special markup, but it'd be enough to 
include a page:

	(:include PageThatDefinesFormForInputtingLink:)

Thoughts and comments are welcome. Especially if you think there's better 
ways to add link/comment to a page. 

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr