[Pmwiki-users] from to creating new page

[Knut Alboldt]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:57:00PM +0100, Knut Alboldt wrote:
> 
>>#------------------------
>>Markup('createnewpage','directive','/\(:createnewpage\s+(.*):\)/e','Keep(CreateNewPage($pagename,"$1"))');
>>
>>When I enter the new name and submit the form the same page is shown again 
>>and the text is replaced by:
>>
>>"newpagename:)(:groupfooter"
>>
>>So what's wrong ?
> 
> 
> You probably need a question mark after your ".*" in the first pattern.
> Otherwise, ".*" can (and will) include any closing ":)" sequences as 
> long as it finds another one to match later in the string.
> 

ok, that was the first mistake I made (in this case, there a plenty of others 
... :-)

But there has to be something wrong with the form.

#------------------------
Markup('createnewpage','directive','/\(:createnewpage\s+(.*?):\)/e','Keep(CreateNewPage($pagename,"$1"))');
function CreateNewPage($pagename,$newpage)
{
   global $ScriptUrl;
   $Group = FmtPageName('$Group',$pagename);

   $out[] = "<form title='$[creating specified new page in group] $Group' 
method='post' action='\$ScriptUrl'>";
   $out[] = "  <input type='hidden' name='action' value='edit' />";
   $out[] = "  <input class='formbutton' type='submit' name='post' value=' 
$[create new page]: ' />";
   $out[] = "  <input class='formtext' type='text' name='pagename' width='20' 
value='$newpage' />";
   $out[] = "</form>";
   return FmtPageName(implode("\n",$out),$pagename);

}

what I want is to call a new page named $Group + "." + $pagename to be displayed 
for editing.
In the upper format of form it displays $Group + ".PageNotFound" but not for 
editing (ok, because pmwiki didn't find the new page specified.) Why is the 
action=edit passed as an hidden field is ignored ?
And how can I tell that a new page has to be created and displayed for editing 
and not "PageNotFound" has to be displayed ? Do I have to implement a new action 
(e.g. "newpage" and hanlde the rest within that action ?

Tried it also with method=get / no action='' etc, no chance.

Any help is very welcome !

Knut