SID-00270: Save form data in a database

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How can I save the form data or the form in a database and retrieve it.

-- GauravSinghal - 2009-04-17

Discussion and Answer

You can do all that internally in TWiki by creating TWiki forms bases applications. Look into TWikiForms, TWikiTemplates. The support forum in this web is an example TWiki application.

There are also simple solutions based on EditTablePlugin and custom templates of CommentPlugin. See working example at EditActionItems.

You can also retrieve and format data from external databases, such as MySQL or Oracle. See Extensions:database. The DatabasePlugin allows users to push content back into the external database.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-04-17

Hi , I am completely new to TWIKI.

Could you please explain in detail about TWIKI Forms and TWIKI Temp.

Like after I create a form

%STARTFORM{name="myform" action="save">

%FORMELEMENT{name="Name"type="text"title="Enter your name:"mandatory="on"}%

%ENDFORM%

What shuld i do next. How do I create a template and add the form to it.

And what after adding the form to template.

-- GauravSinghal - 2009-04-20

Hi , I am completely new to TWIKI.

Could you please explain in detail about TWIKI Forms and TWIKI Temp.

Like after I create a form

%STARTFORM{name="myform" action="save">

%FORMELEMENT{name="Name"type="text"title="Enter your name:"mandatory="on"}%

%ENDFORM%

What shuld i do next. How do I create a template and add the form to it.

And what after adding the form to template.

-- GauravSinghal - 2009-04-20

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-- PeterThoeny - 2009-06-02

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