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use count in forms tab
Morning,
thrilled by the release (and previous testing already) of 4.0.4 i wish myself this:
a use count of forms in the forms tab.
over time one’s building many forms, and it seems, that there’s loads after a while on a site, which are not being used anymore.
to be able to remove them safely it’ll be awesome to have a use count displayed after the name of it in brackets (all on the roight side of the tab in the list of forms) -
uhm, if i had a clue, where this particular page is being built in the textpattern .php files, then i’d go ahead and start the mod/patch myself.
anyone?
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Re: use count in forms tab
This page is built by .../textpattern/include/txp_form.php. How would you know where to hunt for forms?
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Thanx much!
i don’t get that one (erm don’t i now?):
“How would you know where to hunt for forms?”
German limited by exaggerated seriousness over here 8-)
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If you wanted to count all occurences of a form wherever it is used, you will have to consider at least:
- all page templates
- all other forms
- all articles
- all php snippets calling a form via PHP (something like this:
<txp:php> echo output_form( array('form' => 'foo'); </txp:php>) - something else I surely didn’t think of in the first place…
So, I’m just curious how you plan to find these, as I also wanted to have that feature more than once and coudn’t dream up a suitable method besides brute Regex force over all affected database tables.
If such a method would come alive, it will be of immense usefulness, and could even be expanded not only to count but also to provide a form cross reference of sorts.
Last edited by wet (2006-10-19 12:13:50)
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Re: use count in forms tab
thinking
… i think i’d be perfectly content with the page templates in the first place.
i realize i don’t know enough about textpattern internals (hopefully yet) to holler a straight concept out, but nevertheless it seems would probably need
a sort of routine, which checks every single form name (the strings i guess) from mySql against all page forms – just to get it starting.
this routine, then, could surely be adapted for the other checks you mentioned aswell.
as these checks only have to take place, when a user of the txp backend is logged in, they at least won’t slow down the server too much, other than on a backend user entering the form tab.
sounds like a mayor task. my php skills are “sort of”, i don’t think i can realize that myself. i’ll look into it, nevertheless.
could you give me a hint on where to find the mySQL routines in the txp .php ?
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Re: use count in forms tab
.../textpattern/lib/txplib_db.php. You might also benefit from this overview: TXP Defined Functions
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