[Mediawiki-l] Basic skills

[Dave Sigafoos]

You can create "boilerplate" pages with either extension Boilerplate or
BoilerplateSelection.

You might be able to use TableEdit extension for the tables.  It does
store the data in an external database and might be used.  You might
want to talk to the author (I think it was Jim Hu).

There might be a way to dynamically create a new "db" item for each new
page created.

DSig .. Just Chillin'


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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Christensen, Courtney
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:52
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic skills

Nelson,

The mailing list strips attachments for everyone's safety.  Do you think
you could post your image on a publicly accessible site instead?  

Do you just want a page with a form that a user fills out and then you
create a new article from the form input?  If that is the case, create a
new special page and use the $wgRequest variable to work with the
submitted data. 

-Courtney

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nelson A
Li
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:25 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Basic skills

Hello,

1. Can someone tell me how to manually or dynamically create a page that
shows the following table for user inputs?
(See attached file: Snap.png)
2. Assume question one resolved, which means that I have created the
page
manually in MediaWiki.  If I want to use php code to retrieve the data
from
wikidb and pre-populate the table fields so that users can see the
current
value before they put updates, how do I "call" this page and pass the
db-retrieved data to the page?

3. After user inputs the updates and hit the "Submit updates" button,
how
do I get the user inputs in order to update my wikidb?

I am pretty new to MW and still struggle to the core php code.  Please
give
detail instructions when answer my questions.  Thank you and have a
Happy
New Year.

Nelson

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