[MKDoc-admin] adding features to mkdoc

[Bruno Postle]

On Fri 08-Oct-2004 at 13:33 -0400, Andrew Brosnan wrote:
>
> Not sure if this is the correct list for this...

We probably have too many lists for MKDoc, mkdoc-admin is for 
installation and configuration help, we should merge it with the 
mkdoc-dev list:

    http://lists.webarch.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkdoc-dev

> I would like to create and integrate some scripts (form handlers, 
> etc.) for use with MKDoc, and I'm looking for some documentation 
> that might help me do this (the integration part :-).

> I noticed that there is a MailForm.pm module. Is there any 
> documentation for using it?

MailForm.pm is used in MKDoc-1.6 as part of the user signup 
procedure.  An MKDoc site can allow visitors to get a user account, 
this enables the newsletter, webboard and personalisation options 
(visitors can even get their own document to edit too).

Although it has been designed for generic form-to-email handling, I 
don't believe MailForm.pm has ever been used for this - As Chris 
says, inertia has meant we tend to set-up soupermail for our own 
customers, even though MKDoc::MailForm has much nicer templating 
capabilities.

Since the whole user-account system has changed for MKDoc-1.8, 
MKDoc::MailForm has been removed in the development trunk.  We would 
like to reintroduce it as an add-on CPAN module. 

-- 
Bruno