[pmwiki-users] Help with form

[Peter Bowers]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Ian MacGregor <ardchoille42 at me.com> wrote:

> 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".



Pmwiki vanilla forms (without any forms-processing recipes) doesn't really
support *doing anything* with the forms - they just allow you to embed the
form on the page, but don't do anything with the information you put there.

I quote from: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Forms:

===(snip)===
Input forms don't actually handle processing of the form data -- the
feature simply allows creation of forms inside wiki pages. Forms processing
can be found in the Cookbook
===(snip)===

So to do what you are looking to do: either you write your own PHP code to
do something with the content entered in the form or else you use one of
the existing forms processors.  Probably the 2 most popular forms
processors are Fox and PmForms.  Personally I like the flexibility of
WikiSh, but it's got a learning curve if you aren't familiar with the
Bourne Shell scripting language.

-Peter
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