[pmwiki-users] Attachlist and nice uploading

[marc]

Kathryn Andersen said...
> One of my users has requested something that I know can't be done
> in standard PmWiki, and I don't think there are any (working non-alpha)
> plugins that can do this.
> 
> A) Add a form to a normal wiki page, where they can type in the name of
> a file, click on a button, and directly upload a file, without having to
> go to another form on another page.

If there isn't a recipe already, this wouldn't be hard to do. I presume 
that you want to retain PmWiki's usual upload locations. 

action=postupload calls HandlePostUpload() - everything is in 
conveniently in upload.php. So you need to mould these into shape.

I quickly tried the markup

  (:input form "" post:)
  (:input hidden action value=postupload:)
  || File to upload:||(:input file uploadfile :) ||
  || Name attachment as:||(:input text upname value='':)(:input submit  
                                    value=Upload :) ||
  (:input end :)

which is close but no cigar :-( Note that it returns you to the 
action=upload 'page', which might not be what you require, but indicates 
a few things worth considering.
 
> B) the ability (with an enhanced attachlist?) to list all uploaded
> files that match a given pattern.

Something similar came up last week. The (:attachlist:) format is hard 
coded in FmtUploadList() in upload.php. It would be good if this could 
be configured in config.php. (The actionlog recipe does this nicely.)

It's easy to duplicate (:attachlist:) as say, (:attachlist2:) by copying

  Markup('attachlist', 'directives'
and
  function FmtUploadList($pagename, $args)

I suspect that quite a few of us to do this ;-)
 
> C) some way in the form in (A) to enforce that the destination file
> names start or end with a particular string.  For example, to have
> the destination file start with "FooErrorLogs" and them just typing in
> to the form field "2007-01.txt" so that the final name would be
> "FooErrorLogs2007-01.txt".

Given (A) then (C) is simple.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc