Extension:FormProc

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FormProc Release status: stable
Implementation	User interface, Tag
Description
Author(s)	Jean-Lou Dupont (jldupontTalk)
Last Version	See SVN
MediaWiki	tested on 1.10 but probably works with earlier versions
License	No license specified
Download	SVN
Hooks used UnknownAction
check usage (experimental)

[edit] Purpose

This extension offers the ability to process posted pages/forms through the 'action=formsubmit' action. The processing code resides in the database. The code can be 'syntax highlighted' through a <php> tag.

[edit] Features

• Handles 'action=formsubmit' action
• Follows 'redirects'
• Executes PHP code stored in a standard Mediawiki page
• Supports code extraction when enclosed in 'PHP' tags
• Supports the definition of a class in the processor page ( $page.'Class' )
  • If a method 'submit' is present in the said class, it will be called upon formsubmit action (see example)

[edit] Example

[edit] Form Processing Page 'MyFormProc'

 <!-- remove pre section -->
<php>
  class MyFormProcClass
  {
  	 function submit() { implement your handler here }
  }
</php>

So in the above case, your form should POST to something like MyFormProc?action=formsubmit.

[edit] Dependencies

• Extension:StubManager extension
• Extension:RunPHP Class extension

[edit] Installation

To install independently from BizzWiki:

• Download 'StubManager' extension
• Apply the following changes to 'LocalSettings.php'

require('extensions/StubManager.php');
require('extensions/RunPHP_class.php');
StubManager::createStub(	'FormProcClass',  // recent versions: try 'FormProc'
				$IP.'/extensions/FormProc/FormProc.php',  // recent versions: try FormProc.body.php
				null,
				array( 'UnknownAction' ),
				false,	// no need for logging support
				null,	// tags
				null,	// no parser functions
				null	// no magic words
			 );

[edit] History

• added functionality to define a class for handling form processing
• removed dependency on ExtensionClass
• added stubbing capability through StubManager

[edit] See also

• BizzWiki platform