[pmwiki-users] Fwd: Do I need Zap or Fox?

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:10:29AM +0000, Francis Casson wrote:
> I basically want users to be able to edit and add  lines to tables without
> going directly into the wiki markup which can get rather confusing for long
> tables.  I like the 'delete' button that comes with AddDeleteLine2, but
> really also want an 'edit' button  that calls the data from that line of
> table back to the form and then allows it to be updated.  I suspect probably
> both Zap and Fox will do what I need, but I am tempted to go with Zap just
> because it has nice documentation for a semi-novice like myself... What are
> the differences between the two?  I can't make it out from their cookbook
> pages!

My understanding is that Fox is for adding content to a given page (and
deleting it); which is useful for adding comments and forums and things like that.

Zap is oriented towards editing "data pages" with forms, not adding
additional content to pages.

I'm not entirely sure which one would be better for your purposes.

Kathryn Andersen
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