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[[!tag wishlist patch plugins/inline]]
[[!template id=gitbranch branch=chrysn/patches author="[[chrysn]]"]]
2009-03-24 08:21:22 +01:00
for postforms in inlines of pages which follow a certain scheme, it might not
be required to set the title for each individual post, but to automatically set
the title and show no input box prompting for it.
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this can either be based on timestamp formatting, or use the already existing
munging mechanism, which appends numbers to page titles in case that page
already exists.
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two patches ([1], [2]) set inline up for that, adding an additional `autotitle`
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parameter. if that is given, the regular input of the inline postform will be
replaced with a hidden input of that text. in addition, the empty title is
permitted (both for autotitle and regular titles, as they go in the same GET
parameter, `title`). as the empty page title is illegal, munging is used,
resulting in ascending numeric page titles to be created.
the second patch is actually a one-liner, filtering the title through strftime.
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2009-07-26 13:56:50 +02:00
> Something similar was requested in [[todo/more_customisable_titlepage_function]],
> in which [[Joey]] outlined a similar solution.
>
> What's your use-case for not prompting for the title at all? I can see
> [[madduck]]'s requirement for the title he typed in (say, "foo")
> being transformed into 2009/07/26/foo or something (I name blog posts
> like that myself), but I can't quite see the use for *entirely* automatic
> titles.
>
> However, if that's really what you want, I suspect your code could be
> extended so it also solves madduck's second request on
> [[todo/more_customisable_titlepage_function]].
>
> --[[smcv]]
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### potential user interaction issues
this has two side effects which have to be considered: first, the empty page
title is accepted also in normal postforms (previously, this resulted in a "bad
page name" error); second, entering a percent sign in that field might result
in unexpexted strftime substitution (strftime might not even substitute for
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common uses of percent as in "reach 10% market share", but might in others as
in "the 10%-rule").
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both can be circumvented by using another GET parameter for autotexts, as
implemented in [3].
2009-03-24 23:23:44 +01:00
> this patch still does not work perfectly; especially, it should make a
> distinction between "autotitle is set but equal ''" (in which case it
> should create a page named `1.mdwn`, and "autotitle is not set, and title is
> equal ''" (in which case it should display the old error message) --[[chrysn]]
2009-03-24 08:21:22 +01:00
### potential security issues
* the autotitle's value is directly output through the template (but that's
done in other places as well, so i assume it's safe)
* i don't know if anything bad can happen if unfiltered content is passed to
POSIX::strftime.
### further extension
having a pre-filled input field instead of an unchangable hidden input might be
cool (eg for creating an entry with yesterday's date), but would be a bit of a
problem with static pages. javascript could help with the date part, but name
munging would be yet another thing.
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[1]: http://github.com/github076986099/ikiwiki/commit/b568eb257a3ef5ff49a84ac00a3a7465b643c1e1
[2]: http://github.com/github076986099/ikiwiki/commit/34bc82f232be141edf036d35e8ef5aa289415072
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[3]: http://github.com/github076986099/ikiwiki/commit/40dc10a4ec7809e401b4497c2abccfba30f7a2af