[pmwiki-users] Help with form

[Tamara Temple]

On Oct 2, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Ian MacGregor <ardchoille42 at me.com> wrote:

> I use some of Hans's recipes and they're wonderful, very talented he is.
> 
> The reason behind my request is that I'd like to learn how to do this myself using as few recipes as possible - I don't learn much with recipes. If I need a specialized form later I'd like to be able to "code it out". 
> 
> Regards,
> Rev. Ian MacGregor
> http://ianmac.nfshost.com
> 
>> On Oct 2, 2013, at 6:21 AM, Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 1, 2013, at 7:49 PM, Ian MacGregor <ardchoille42 at me.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've never been good with forms so I'm hoping someone can offer some assistance.
>>> 
>>> I have a page which I use as a daily journal. This page contains entries in the following form:
>>> 
>>> [[#mmmYYYYDD]]
>>> !!!$title
>>> %stimestamp%MMMM DD, YYYY at HH:MM AM/PM%%[[<<]]
>>> $entry
>>> [[#endmmmYYYYDD]]
>>> 
>>> Explanation:
>>> Line 1: beginning anchor in the form "jan201321"
>>> Line 2: The title of the entry such as "Went shopping today"
>>> Line 3: Timestamp in the form "January 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM" (timestamp is already defined in a groupheader)
>>> Line 4: The body of the entry such as "Today I went shopping and saw an old friend.."
>>> Line 5: End anchor in the form "jan201321"
>>> 
>>> I would like to create a form at the top of that page that will allow me to post an entry to the page without having to memorize all of the syntax. I read http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Forms but it's all a bit overwhelming. I know I need the following:
>>> 
>>> (:input form:)
>>> (:input hidden name=n value={$FullName}:)
>>> (:input for beginning anchor?:)
>>> (:input for $title?:)
>>> (:input for timestamp?:)  (separate text boxes for date and time and AM/PM?) (date picker?)
>>> (:input for text body?:)
>>> (:input for end anchor?:)
>>> How to get the form to post to the page?
>>> (:input end:)
>>> 
>>> Can someone help me build this form? How do I specify markup syntax? How do I specify to which page to add the post? I'm not sure if I need specific cookbook recipes. I know there is commentboxplus but I would like to learn how to build this form to help me understand how forms work. I have a feeling I'll also learn how to create a nice looking date picker :)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Rev. Ian MacGregor
>> 
>> Dear Ian,
>> 
>> I don't have time to delve into this right now with you, but I would suggest you take a peak at the Fox form stuff Hans has put together. I am pretty sure he's got some examples that show just what you want (well, maybe with a bit of tweaking)…
>> 
>> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Fox
>> 
>> http://softflow.co.uk/design/FoxDocumentation/FoxDocumentation
>> 
>> best of luck with it,
>> 
>> Tamara
>> 
>> 
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Hum, the point of using the Fox form handling is so you don't have to redo all the work yourself. However, if this is actually a learning exercise, that is something different, and I definitely don't have time to help with that, Sorry!