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NewPageBoxPlus-Talk

Comments and Questions

• Very nice. Would it be possible to include a short descritpion of the parameters into the script itself? So the meaning and function of the parameters could be easily obtained without need for searching for it. You should integrate also the possbility that someone only adds a group name for base. Ok this is a minor one. Klonk January 11, 2006, at 03:07 AM
  Done the documentation. ~'HansB''
• Would be nice if this could check to make sure the textbox is not left empty (or is still equal to the "value" parameter) - so that inadvertant editing did not happen.
  Fixed now. ~HansB
• Is it possible to place the newpagebox in the very top line near "recent changes" and "search" ? ~~Peter, 2006-03-02

• If I set save=true, then no author-information is saved. So $LastModifiedby is "". What can I do? flox April 10, 2006, at 04:42 AM

• How complex would it be to tweak this to create a newgroupbox, where the base and the entered value are turned around? I want to have a box where someone can enter the name of a new group, and Group.Base is created, instead of Base.Group. -- JonHaupt

• With (:newpagebox .... save=true:) a new created page has 1970-01-01 in $PageCreationDate with:

  # add page variable {$PageCreationDate} in format yyyy-mm-dd
  $FmtPV['$PageCreationDate'] = 'strftime("%Y-%m-%d", $page["ctime"])';

  in config.php. flox April 15, 2006, at 02:57 PM

• If a page is created (save=true), sometimes the page is not listed with (:pagelist:). There seems to be no problem, if I create one without this script. Profiles April 18, 2006, at 12:42 PM

I know, not the best code...

(:pagelist fmt=#galerienormal group=Galerie -2004 -2005 -2006 list=normal -IchHabDichLieb 
-RecentChanges -PageTemplateName -GroupHeader -GroupFooter -GroupAttributes :)

If I create for example the page hallo, it isn't shown there. But it lists "old" pages. Sometimes, if I edit the page again, it is shown in the pagelist. Thanks, flox April 18, 2006, at 03:53 PM

• I'm using save=true and template=Xxx. If the template has markup that adds it to a category (e.g. Yyy), then the new page doesn't appear in the category listing (pagelist link=Category.Yyy) unless I edit that page.
  I updated the script, so link targets are saved as well now. -- HansB April 28, 2006, at 03:40 AM
  Hi Hans, that does work. I ran into problems as was using both NewPageBoxPlus and NewGroupBox on the same site - the latter was included second in the config file and still had the old code. The handler for NewGroupBox appears to overwrite the handler for NewPageBoxPlus when included in this order, it took a while to figure this out and get your changed code working for me. Thanks for your work and quick reply!

• Can you add an option to strip periods (".") from the input? If a visitor uses a period in the input, the specified base group is overridden and the new page is created in a different group, based on the entered string, e.g. "John Q. Public" creates JohnQ.Public (that is, a page called Public in a group called JohnQ). Pico May 17, 2006, at 05:48 PM

Done now. Periods gets stripped if a base= parameter is specified. If no base= is specified the left side will become the group, and the right side of the period the pagename, which lets you create pages in other groups than the current. HansB August 05, 2006, at 01:28 PM

• Can you add a parameter that puts the link to the new page on the original page right above the markup? It would be great for lists of links. Alex 5th Aug 2006

I think this feature goes a bit beyond the scope of this recipe, it will require rather complex alterations, as the page with the newpagebox markup needs to be changed and saved automatically, apart from creating the new page, which is newpagebox's job. You could perhaps use the (:pagelist:) directive instead. If new pages get created in various groups perhaps set up a template page with a marker on it, like (:comment SpecialMarker:), and use (:pagelist SpecialMarker:) above the newpagebox to list links to all pages with SpecialMarker. HansB

• Hans, is there a way to use Newpageboxplus with wikiforms? I would like to use a Wikiform that has a button like 'Create new note' or 'create new page' where both the groupname and pagename can be set with variables. Am I making sense here? (hfwang-aug192006)

You can install newpageboxplus and use input form markup like

(:input form :)
(:input hidden action new:)
(:input hidden name "Test.NewPage":)
(:input submit value="Create new page":)
(:input end:)

This will create a button which when clicked will direct to edit a new page named Test.NewPage. You may want to use variables for 'Test' and 'NewPage'. But I am not sure how you apply them, I did not understand your concept for this. Still the input form will use the newpagebox functions. You could also add more hidden fields, for instanc efor a template page:

~HansB

Hans, thanks for the swift reply! Let me clarify my wishes a bit.

I am using wikiforms to create a 'project information sheet' page. From this page I would like to be able to 'press a button' to create 'issues', 'notes' etc. all in their own group and manageable with wikiforms. New sub project entries must link to the original project (xxx.0001) and list themself on the ViewTemplate page of the wikiform page. In Short, Projects is the main entry to all information, but issues and notes do have their own page where all of them (thus all projects) are listed as a reguar 'wikilist' entry. HTH! (hfwang-aug192006)

I am sorry but I know nothing about WikiForms, you better ask John Rankin. ~HansB

Possible Solution: I have been tracking for a while the posts of HTH, I have been working in a similar project as well, I think I maybe have found a solution for his application. If you take the following line in the newpageboxplus.php:

" <input class='inputbox newpagetext' name='name' value='{$opt['value']}' size='{$opt['size']}'" . ($opt['focus']=="true" ? $onfocusHTML : "") . "/> \n" .

and then changed for the following :

" <input class='inputbox newpagetext' type='hidden' name='name' value='{$opt['value']}' size='{$opt['size']}'" . ($opt['focus']=="true" ? $onfocusHTML : "") . "/> \n" .

This basically hide the Input Text Box. You will get a imple button linking to the page you want to create in the form:

(:newpagebox base=P{$Name}.Main value=Main label=Go button=left save=true:) 

and you yet have the option to specify the template you want to use with with.

Hope that Helps, Marte

• Could you add a prefix= or suffix= or pattern= option, so that the new page name would have that as part of its name? This isn't the same as base= (which determines the group name); I need something that would affect the page name. For example, if the entered name was NewPage, and the prefix was Foo, then the real new page name would be turned into FooNewPage.
  Kathryn Andersen January 23, 2007, at 07:31 PM

I was looking for a way to have an input select drop down for groups and found this to work in a form (based on the input form markup above:

(:input form :)
(:input hidden action new :)
(:input text name :)
(:input select name="base" value="SomeGroup1" :)
(:input select name="base" value="SomeGroup2" :)
(:input submit value="Add New Page":)
(:input end :)

Seems to work well for me ... so I thought I'd post if for others to see. ~Scott

• Hans, nice recipe. Could you add an option to skip going to the new page altogether? (even when the page already exists). SteP March 10, 2007, at 05:37 AM

                
		if (@$_REQUEST['template'] && PageExists($_REQUEST['template'])) {
			$p = RetrieveAuthPage($_REQUEST['template'], 'read', false, READPAGE_CURRENT);
			if ($p['text'] > '') $new['text'] = $p['text']; 
			$new['author'] = $Author;
			//$new['ctime'] = $Now;   // taking it out of here...
		}       
                $new['ctime'] = $Now; // ... and sticking it here instead...

(:pagelist group=Mobile fmt=#titlesummary list=normal:)

    $name = stripmagic(@$_REQUEST['name']);

97:	if (isset($NewPageBaseGroup) OR $_REQUEST['base']) {
98:		$name = str_replace(".", "", $name);
99:		$name = str_replace("/", "", $name);
100:		$newpage = MakePageName($base, "$basegroup.$name");	
101:	}