In making my extensions, there are places where I need user inputs. I've just been coding these as HTML and outputting them via wgOut-
addHTML(). But I see that there is a class called HTMLform.php,
and I was wondering if that is intended to be a general use class for forms, the way CGI.pm is used in Perl. It looks like only SpecialUserrights.php uses it now; SpecialSearch does not.
Are the devs planning to use HTMLform.php for other page types in the future and extend its usefulness? Or is it a dead end I should ignore? Thanks! ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054
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Jim Hu wrote:
In making my extensions, there are places where I need user inputs. I've just been coding these as HTML and outputting them via wgOut-
addHTML(). But I see that there is a class called HTMLform.php,
and I was wondering if that is intended to be a general use class for forms, the way CGI.pm is used in Perl. It looks like only SpecialUserrights.php uses it now; SpecialSearch does not.
Are the devs planning to use HTMLform.php for other page types in the future and extend its usefulness? Or is it a dead end I should ignore? Thanks!
It's deprecated; mostly we use the element-generation functions on the Xml class (or in some older code, their wf*() equivalents).
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