[pmwiki-users] New cookbook recipe : BuildForms

[Pierre Rouzeau]

hello,
hmmm, i still not clearly see what you want to do with non-formatted data ?
If you may wish to modify for example a configuration file directly in 
the source data, that may offer more flexibility and make some sense but 
that defeat any control which can be done by the form.

Though, it is more inline with the wiki philosophy to have everything in 
pages, but you may be obliged to protect the page with password which 
complexify configuration and administration.

Having the file being named as per the form page name + extension make 
it "linked" with this page, so quite easy to find for data extraction, 
being it done by program or by a markup.

My intent was to make a tool permitting to create easily configuration 
pages, to set up the Wiki or for another use.
Obviously, it can be used for other things, but I have not much idea of 
these others things.

So, I would like to know what sort of use you foresee for this recipe. 
And why you may need to search the data.

Regards

Leo a écrit :
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:15:02 +0100, Pierre Rouzeau <pierre at rouzeau.net> wrote:
> 
>>[...snip...]
>>I don't see any point in storing brute data in a wiki page. Though if
>>needed, this is fairly easy to do, only to transfer the content of
>>$pagename.val in a wiki page.
> 
> 
> On the contrary, it is VERY importnat to store the form data in a
> wikipage. Wikipages are searchable and can be classified by Pmwiki
> Categories, while come $pagename.val is ignored in all these
> oprations.
> If it is easy to add wikipage conversion both ways betwen
> $pagename.val and @pagename (wikipage) your creation would become
> literally PERFECT!!
> 
> Thanks,
> --Leo--

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