[Mediawiki-l] Form Pointers Wanted

[Laptop Cartop]

Sourcforge.net is home to a tool called PhpSurveyor. which uses MSql 
database and will handle voting and surveying. However, this may be much 
more than you want to deal with.

MikeT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Steinman" <Jan at Bytesmiths.com>
To: <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Form Pointers Wanted


> I'd like to make pages that accept form input, go off and query  MySQL, 
> and display results. For example, voting on proposals,  maintaining a 
> distributed book/video library, or time sheet logging.
>
> It would be really cool to make this an extension, so it could be 
> configured and embedded in any page -- especially if it could still 
> function if the page is protected from editing. I suppose the  alternative 
> is a Special page.
>
> Having played with some extensions, I'm having trouble  conceptualizing 
> how form-based interaction would work. What would the  form target page 
> be? I suppose it could be the same page, branching  off the existence of 
> GET or POST data to figure out if the form was  being sent or received.
>
> I'm not asking anyone to solve the problem for me -- just post some  URLs 
> of things that are similar to what I'm looking for. I once came  across a 
> voting system, but have been unable to find it (or anything  similar) on 
> Meta.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice offered!
>
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> :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com>
>
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