Re: contact forms

[Andrew Golightly <A....@dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

Hi all,

I'm still looking at creating a form in Lenya that will acquire some 
user information so we can create a mailing list.

Has anyone solved this type of problem within Lenya 1.4?

thanks,
Andrew

Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> Sorry for not speaking up earlier but ATM I am quite busy.
>
> lenya 1.2. usecase and 1.4. are *very* different.
>
> What solprovider describes works perfectly in 1.2 but not in 1.4 since
> the architecture of the usecase framework has changed heaps.
>
> http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/usecase-framework/index.html
>
> El vie, 05-05-2006 a las 14:04 +0100, Andrew Golightly escribió:
>   
>> thanks for getting back to me.
>>
>>     
>>> The error is probably caused by one of these files being missing:
>>>   {pub}/resources/forms-samples-styling.xsl
>>>   {pub}/xslt/page2xhtml.xsl
>>>   build/lenya/webapp/lenya/xslt/util/strip_namespaces.xsl
>>>       
>> Unfortunately not. I've done a clean rebuild with lenya. I downloaded 
>> the latest contact.zip too. And I've checked those three files to make 
>> sure they are in the right places. Same error... :p
>>     
>
> which is no surprise see above.
>
> IMO you may want to look at the cform doctype example if you want to use
> cforms. ...but IMO that is not even needed for a "simple" contact form.
>
> The basic steps to set up an usecase are described in
> http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/usecase-framework/index.html#Implementing+a+Custom+Usecase
>
> So I guess the quickest solution is to 
> 1) create and setup a usecase java/config 
> 2) create a *simple* html form as view (mind to give the input fields
> unique identifier like lenya.contact.name - this prevent any possible
> conflicts)
>
> Now in the doExecute() you will request the information like 
> String name = getParameterAsString("lenya.contact.name");
> ...
> and do your business logic.
>
> HTH
>
> salu2
>   

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Re: contact forms

[Andreas Hartmann <an...@apache.org>]

Andrew Golightly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm still looking at creating a form in Lenya that will acquire some 
> user information so we can create a mailing list.
> 
> Has anyone solved this type of problem within Lenya 1.4?

1.4 contains a contactform module which is based on the usecasedocument
resource type. Maybe you can use this as a starting point.

-- Andreas

> 
> thanks,
> Andrew
> 
> Thorsten Scherler wrote:
>> Sorry for not speaking up earlier but ATM I am quite busy.
>>
>> lenya 1.2. usecase and 1.4. are *very* different.
>>
>> What solprovider describes works perfectly in 1.2 but not in 1.4 since
>> the architecture of the usecase framework has changed heaps.
>>
>> http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/usecase-framework/index.html
>>
>> El vie, 05-05-2006 a las 14:04 +0100, Andrew Golightly escribió:
>>  
>>> thanks for getting back to me.
>>>
>>>    
>>>> The error is probably caused by one of these files being missing:
>>>>   {pub}/resources/forms-samples-styling.xsl
>>>>   {pub}/xslt/page2xhtml.xsl
>>>>   build/lenya/webapp/lenya/xslt/util/strip_namespaces.xsl
>>>>       
>>> Unfortunately not. I've done a clean rebuild with lenya. I downloaded 
>>> the latest contact.zip too. And I've checked those three files to 
>>> make sure they are in the right places. Same error... :p
>>>     
>>
>> which is no surprise see above.
>>
>> IMO you may want to look at the cform doctype example if you want to use
>> cforms. ...but IMO that is not even needed for a "simple" contact form.
>>
>> The basic steps to set up an usecase are described in
>> http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/usecase-framework/index.html#Implementing+a+Custom+Usecase 
>>
>>
>> So I guess the quickest solution is to 1) create and setup a usecase 
>> java/config 2) create a *simple* html form as view (mind to give the 
>> input fields
>> unique identifier like lenya.contact.name - this prevent any possible
>> conflicts)
>>
>> Now in the doExecute() you will request the information like String 
>> name = getParameterAsString("lenya.contact.name");
>> ...
>> and do your business logic.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> salu2
>>   
> 


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Andreas Hartmann
Wyona Inc.  -   Open Source Content Management   -   Apache Lenya
http://www.wyona.com                      http://lenya.apache.org
andreas.hartmann@wyona.com                     andreas@apache.org


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