[pmwiki-users] zap forms

[The Editor]

On 5/15/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:19:00AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> > On 5/15/07, noskule <noskule at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > The problem I have is that I generate a list of issueforms and the
> > > values of the dropdownlists of all forms are the same as in the first
> > > form. Textarea and text fiels are woring as they should.
> >
> > I don't think PmWiki has any way of setting default values for
> > specific forms. Pm mentioned that in an earlier post, if I recall
> > correctly.
>
> It will be possible to do this in beta46 or beta47.
>
> It will also be possible to set default values in individual
> input controls:
>
>  (:input text name="from"  default="Your name here" :)
>
> would display "Your name here" as the default value for
> the text field only if the value hasn't been set somewhere
> else (by a previous input default statement, or in the
> $InputValues array).  Thus, one can write
>
>    (:input form ... :)
>    (:input default request=1:)
>    (:input text from default="{$Author}" :)
>    (:input text subject default="Subject" :)
>    (:input textarea text :)
>    (:input submit:)
>    (:input end:)
>
> and the "from" and "subject" fields will take their
> values from the previous form submitted ("request=1"),
> or use {$Author} and "Subject" as their values if no
> default values were supplied.
>
> Pm


Very cool. I like this much better than the current implementation!

Cheers,
Dan