[Mediawiki-l] forms in extension pages and HTMLform.php

[Jim Hu]

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!
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054