clement at seizam
Jul 31, 2012, 1:54 AM
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Adm <linuxloverstaff <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> hello,
> I'd like to do thinks in the better way...then:
>
> I have to made an extension similar to BoilerTemplate.
> Right now I made a special page and I'd like to put in a form to let
> user choose a teplate.
>
> Some questions:
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> 1) Must I use some apis to render the form?
> 2) How to set the form target? Hidden input tags are a good solution
> but: how can I have a clean urls ready form?
>
> I'm ready to read any tutorial you can suggest me,
> thanks for your attenction,
> ADM
>
The HTMLForm Class [1] is very useful to build forms on MW.
It is directly used by most core forms (Preferences, Upload, Block...).
It will most probably suit your needs, if it doesn't, I advise extending it.
There's a documentation [2] and a tutorial [3] on mw.org.
There is also FormSpecialPage [4] extending SpecialPage with build-in HTMLForm.
I never used that, but perhaps it is the abstraction level you're looking for.
I might not understand question 2) very well:
HTMLForm has it's own way to set the target, using
$htmlForm->setTitle($this->getTitle()); #in the case of a SpecialPage.
Targeting another SpecialPage is very complicated, although not impossible.
Targeting the same SpecialPage is probably easier for the developer AND the user.
[1] Path: /includes/HTMLForm.php
[2] Introduction: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTMLForm
[3] Tutorial: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTMLForm/tutorial
[4] Path to FormSpecialPage class: /includes/SpecialPage.php
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