Extension:FormWizard

MediaWiki extensions manual
FormWizard
Release status: beta
Implementation Parser function , Ajax, API
Description Creating new pages on MediaWiki wikis
Author(s) Egbe Eugene and James Hare
Latest version 0.0.1 (TBA)
MediaWiki 1.29+
Database changes No
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Help Help:Extension:FormWizard
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The FormWizard extension allows anyone to create forms on MediaWiki wikis, used to create new pages. It was first developed as a FormWizard gadget but is now available as a MediaWiki extension.

User guide edit

For an end user guide to FormWizard, see Help:Extension:FormWizard .

Installation edit

  • Download and move the extracted FormWizard folder to your extensions/ directory.
    Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
    git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/FormWizard
  • Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
    wfLoadExtension( 'FormWizard' );
    
  • Run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer update in the extension directory.
  •   Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Basic setup edit

For FormWizard to be able to work properly, you need to configure the parser function on a wiki page like so:

{{#formwizard:action=Start|config=Config.json|mode=subpage|project=TestProject}}

with mode=" ", should generate a button which looks like this:

Start with mode="subpage", should generate a button and a text field like so:

 

In the parser function definition,

  • action is what should be displayed on the button which will be created
  • config is the name of the JSON configuration page. An example can be found Help:Extension:FormWizard#The Wizard
  • mode is the mode in which the extension in operating and is used to determine if the user will need to provide a subpage name before the making use of the extension.
  • project is the project where the extension is applied (this will be used to define page content in context of the project.