[pmwiki-users] FGS Beta - Including PmWiki pages & exporting FGS data

[John Feezell]

The answer to your question is: yes FGS can POST to an external CGI, 
however, because of the structure of FGS field storage it is necessary 
that the post from the form be processed by FGS.  I don't know if it is 
possible to "double" POST from a HTML form.  As an alternative FGS will 
pass the field data to a php function called HandleFGSFieldData if it 
exists.  This provides an 'export' capability for FGS.  You can see it 
in operation at <http://cbfa-cos.org/xwiki/Forms/IncludeExport>.

That page also contains examples of the inclusion of PmWiki pages in the 
form in display only form.  This FGS capability allows for a display of 
a PmWiki page and also input fields on the same page.  Again you can see 
this at <http://cbfa-cos.org/xwiki/Forms/IncludeExport>.  This setup is 
possible because of the power and flexibility of PmWiki.  Thanks Pm, for 
the MarkupToHTML function. It is outstanding!

The latest version of FGS available at <htp://cbfa-cos.org/4others> will 
support these new capabilities.  Note: the code has been bug inspected 
but is not warranted to be bug free.

Your comments, suggests, questions, etc are welcomed and can be posted 
here or in the comments section of 
<http://cbfa-cos.org/xwiki/Forms/IncludeExport> by editing that page.

/JF

Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Can FGS POST the data to an external CGI? (like any regular HTML form?)
>
> Sivakatirswami
> Himalayan Academy Publications
> at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
> katir at hindu.org
> www.HimalayanAcademy.com,
>
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 2:46 AM, John Feezell wrote:
>
>>
>> The new version includes:
>> * bug fix for timestamp fields - they now use UTC
>> * first pass of routines to export form data
>>   An example is available at:
>>   <http://cbfa-cos.org/Forms/HowToExportData>
>>   The design for this form is at:
>>   <http://cbfa-cos.org/Forms/Design-ExportDataSample>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> /JF
>
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