Adm <linuxloverstaff <at> gmail.com> writes:

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:

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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