I'm just getting started with forms/pseudo-database in pmwiki. I first played around with some approaches in fox and then moved to zap. I wasn't getting the form approach and flexibility I was looking for (I didn't spend much time, so if there is greater capability there than I found the problem is with me, not with the recipes). Also I found a great deal of discussion regarding Zap with the end result being that apparently zap is no longer being actively updated on pmwiki. (If I have misinterpreted, my apologies -- I'm just going on my skim-throughs of old posts on this group.) Obviously that's a pretty key point if you're planning on taking this into the future.
I ended up on WikiForms and was pleasantly surprised at how easily it went in and how much power was present with almost no effort at all on my part. In a recent post JR said it had been a "quickie" intended for a single application, but it's obviously been well designed and has great potential and easily enough of that potential has already been implemented for it to be a highly useful tool. Feel free to check out http://www.ccl-al.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=X.X and the pages in that same group if you want to see another example of a site making use of it. A few points I've found to beware of: * avoid any characters other than lower-case letters in your variable names. * avoid colons in your help text * plan your FormTemplate carefully -- you can't re-order fields or insert fields in the middle of your form without going back and re-editing all your data forms again. * there is no good way to format the form other than a vertical list of fields -- there are some feature requests out there, but nothing implemented (that I can find) at this point * documentation is a little difficult to read, but that's my fault as much as anybody's since it's in a wiki format... Hope that helps in some small way. Also I hope you see that this small list of concerns is by no means saying the recipe is lacking -- I am a wholehearted wikiforms convert... -Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pmwiki-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Schallenberg > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:55 PM > To: PmWiki Users > Subject: [pmwiki-users] Newbie Alert!!! - Simple Database? > > I am just getting my feet wet with PmWiki, and I would like to create > a simple inventory database for our organization. > > I am used to the "tracker" function in TikiWiki, which allowed one to > define fields and their data types in a flat database. > > I have read a bit about Forms in PmWiki, but I have not seen any > examples or recipes that are like what I would call a database. > > Do you have any suggestions how to proceed, or any example wikis with > something like a database? A simple contact list or even a todo list > would be useful for me to study. > > - Jeff > > -- > - Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
