Hi,

On Mar 1, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Hugh Hulme wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm an experienced software engineer but scripting XWiki still seems to
> be about as clear as mud to me.
> 
> I know I could create a Form.
> I know this could result in a new Page being generated.
> However, I have no idea how to make this happen.
> Is an event raised when I submit the form? If so, how do I attach a
> handler to that event? What do I then need to do to squeeze the
> user-provided data into a page generated from a template? Or into some
> data store from which a templated page would be generated?
> 
> I would be incredibly grateful if someone could throw together a very
> quick walk-through of doing the following from a web browser:
> 
> Creating a new form with a singular field, e.g. Name
> Writing the code which takes the contents of this form and creates a new
> page with title "Name's Greeting" and content "Hello, Name!"
> 
> This does raise further questions. For example: Can a user go back later
> and edit the data in the form? Or would the resulting page need to be
> edited instead?

See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/

and more specifically:
- http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DataModel
- http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial

Thanks
-Vincent

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