WikiDB

This will be a very very simple database for wiki pages. It has these goals:

  • Easy to add "records" to the database via a form interface.
  • Easy to edit forms, either with the form interface, or by hand in the wiki page.
  • Templatable header, footer and body.
  • Sortable records.
  • Paginated output.

The WikiDB is not related to the new SQLite class (which is a database for storing the whole pages and their history).

The WikiDB can be used for:

  • Any kind of tables of data.
  • An online wiki guestbook.
  • Some other structured wiki content (repeated data and formatting).

Proposed markup (for an example guestbook):

(:wikidb template=#HERE perpage=20 columns="bHidden iDate Author Message Reply" order=-iDate if="bHidden=0" editlink="[edit]":)
# 0 # 20080201 # data 3 # new%0Aline here # end
# 1 # 20080205 # [[Cookbook|links too]] # '''bold''' # end
(:wikidbend:)
[[#HERE]]
Here will be the header (if needed)
[[#HEREeach]]
Each record of the database will be looped through this section.
>>class=authorstamp<<
{(ftime {#iDate})} - {#Author} {#_editlink}
>>class=message<<
{#Message}
>>class=reply<<
{#Reply}
>><<
[[#HEREfoot]]
Here some footer (if needed)
[[#HEREform]]
And the add/edit form
[[#HERE]]

(:wikidb template=#HERE perpage=20 columns="bHidden iDate Author Message Reply" order=-iDate if="bHidden=0" editlink="[edit]":)

  1. 0 # 20080201 # data 3 # new%0Aline here # end
  2. 1 # 20080205 # links too # bold # end

(:wikidbend:) Here will be the header (if needed) Each record of the database will be looped through this section.

2024-04-19 22:08:12 - {#Author} {#_editlink}

{#Message}

{#Reply}

Here some footer (if needed) And the add/edit form

To be continued...

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8: 00.08 now