[pmwiki-users] Help with form

Ian MacGregor ardchoille42 at me.com
Wed Oct 2 14:54:30 CDT 2013


Thank you, Peter. I've been a huge fan of bash for years on my Linux desktop machines, so I'll check out WikiSh. I've also been a fan of Hans' work so I'll check out Fox - I remember it being quite popular.

Regards,
Rev. Ian MacGregor
http://ianmac.nfshost.com

> On Oct 2, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Peter Bowers <pbowers at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> 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".
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> 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.
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> I quote from: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Forms: 
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> ===(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)===
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> 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.
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> -Peter
> 
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