Re: [MediaWiki-l] Form to fill in before allowing access to a download link.

Hi Mark, I have implemented something very much like this, but not purely in MW. I wrote a CGI script (in PHP, but any language supported by your web server will do) that processed form input and gave the user the requested file. I created the required form as a widget (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets), with the URL of the CGI script as the action. Since this solution is not contained entirely within MW, it has the potential drawback that you need access to put executables somewhere the web server will allow them to be run. A slicker way to do this would be with Semantic Forms (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms). The setup might be a little more complex, but you'd be writing less of the actual machinery, so much of the bugfixing is already done for you. Plus I think it'll be much faster and easier to implement this if there are a bunch of different files available for download, or if you later want to implement something similar elsewhere. I can't tell you off the top of my head exactly how to go about this, but IIRC the documentation is pretty good. Cheers, David Leaman