[pmwiki-users] can wikiforms use fox form validation?

[Hans]

Sunday, July 13, 2008, 11:46:43 PM, david roundell wrote:

> i would prefer to display form submissions via wikiforms as i want submissions
> to be edited if necessary. using fox doesn't give me an editable table of
> submissions - just plain text under headings. however i would like to use the
> form validation used by fox, in the style of: ......

I think it would be rather difficult or impossible to use Fox's
validation functions in the wikiforms script, but I don't really know.

I just want to comment briefly on your statement:

>  using fox doesn't give me an editable table of submissions - just plain text under headings.

Fox plus Input markup allows creation of all kinds of edit forms.
Say you have data pages each with 20 PTVs with data items, you could
build a fox edit form where each PTV is displayed for editing in a
separate field. What Fox lacks at present is a generic edit form
which will display edit fields for whatever number of PTVs it
finds automatically.

Fox could also edit single table rows, by having a foxedit link
attached to each, and clicking it will open an edit form with
corresponding fields for each cell, provided that the table is
constructed as a pagelist and each row represents a data page.

But no doubt Wikiforms is much more specialised and clever in
handling data tables. Fox is more of an all-purpose processor.


  ~Hans