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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Ian MacGregor <[email protected]> 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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