Extension talk:Form

Oki why dont extensions work with ipbwiki..
I have tried all the forms in here ,semantic too, trying to get them to work with ipbwiki and none seem to work with it as ipb+wiki integration changes core files during installing. BUT when i run it with a pure wiki it runs great. To bad.

Why not Semantic Forms?
Hi Evan,

It's great to see another form extension on MediaWiki platform - it means there is a need for regular, non-wiki users to contribute.

I wonder why you chose to create new extension and not using Semantic Forms, for example?

I use it quite successfully for my Tech Presentations project and would be happy to share my experience with you.

Thank you, --Sergey Chernyshev 20:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking SW is too complex if all a person needs to do is get a simple form thing going. First you have to install SW (create tables and what not) and then install SW-Forms separately. --Kenny5 00:55, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Work only on MW >= 1.11
Due to wfLoadExtensionMessages defined only since 1.11. --Hugoyar 11:57, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Error in MW 1.13.1
I got this error: Messages file for extensions Form is not defined

Apparently fixed by changing Line 38 in SpeicalForm.body.php to: wfLoadExtensionMessages( 'SpecialForm' );

Problem in mediawiki 1.13
I'm trying to install this extention into my mediawiki and can't seem to get it to work.

I added the line into the LocalSettings.php file, checked special pages it appears as Special:Form

I created a page MediaWiki:Sample-form and a template Template:Sample

I then tried navigating to the page Special:Form/Sample and am recieving an "Internal error" message.

I can't quite figure out why this is. I recive the same error if i try to view Special:Form

Any Ideas why i would get this error?


 * NM I'm an Idoit for not understanding the previous post. after I enabled te $wgExtentionMessage line it told me to it directed me to the same fix as above.

Name not found
I installed the extention.

I created two special pages MediaWiki:Sample-form and Template:Form, in which i copied the content of the same name files.

Then i created a link to Special:Form/Sample, but when i try to go to this page i got this message :

"the form's name is incorrect. Any form exist whit this name"

Someone get an idea ?

Thanks

(Sorry for my english, i'm french, so...)

Ok we found out the solution. The problem is in the french translation where the Formpattern is defined as formulaire-$1. To solve the problem, you have just to change "formulaire-$1" to $1-form" in the page Mediawiki:Formpattern
 * Merci pour cette solution! It works!

Using a form to populate a table
I am using MediaWiki to maintain production stats on several projects. I have several people that are helping with various stages of any given project. I would like to use a form to populate the data in a table so that the users just type the information and hit Submit and the master table would be updated with the new information. Is there anything like this out there? I have checked and don't think that any of the form info I have found here would fit exactly.

Extension:SpecialForm
Did you try SpecialForm ?
 * Especially in combination with Extension:SQL2Wiki, since SpecialForm is write-only to the database. I added some stuff (table-less embedding, pagination) to code on the discussion page. —Bytesmiths 05:02, 26 November 2009 (UTC)