Question

I’m developing a Mediawiki extension. It’s composed of a special page which has a form to be filled by the user. Using the data of the form, my extension should update a special table of the database.

The problem is that I don’t know where to point the form. I cannot point it to something like $IP/extensions/myExtension/processData.php because I need to use the functions of the MediaWiki’s API, so it must be part of the wiki.

Any clue?

Answer 1

Finally I’m sending the output of the form to the same page. You can do this either by leaving the action field blank, or filling it with the address of the page, using something like:

$this ->getTitle()->escapeLocalURL()

To process the data, you have to check whether there’s a post petition present, and then parse the results and do whatever actions are needed:

if ($this -> getRequest() -> wasPosted()){
    $value = $this -> getRequest() -> getVal("first_field");
    // ...