Module:FormUtil

-- FormUtil local p = {}

function p.fullURL(form, template, args) local tbl = {} for k, v in pairs(args) do		if v ~= 'No' then tbl[#tbl+1] = template .. '%5B' .. k .. '%5D=' .. v		end end local form_args = table.concat(tbl,'&'):gsub(' ','%%20') return ('%s/Special:RunQuery/%s?%s&pfRunQueryFormName=%s'):format(		mw.site.server,		form,		form_args,		form	) end

function p.partialURL(form, template, args) local tbl = {} for k, v in pairs(args) do		if v ~= 'No' then tbl[#tbl+1] = template .. '%5B' .. k .. '%5D=' .. v		end end local form_args = table.concat(tbl,'&'):gsub(' ','%%20') return ('%s/Special:RunQuery/%s?%s'):format(		mw.site.server,		form,		form_args	) end

-- if you have a partial query and an ordered list of fields and values to add to it at the end (this requires 2 separate lists of what to add) function p.addToQueryURL(form, template, oldquery, newfields, newvalues) local tbl = {} for k, v in ipairs(newfields) do tbl[#tbl+1] = template .. '%5B' .. v .. '%5D=' .. newvalues[k] end partialurl = oldquery .. '&' .. string.gsub(table.concat(tbl,'&'),' ','%%20') url = partialurl .. '&pfRunQueryFormName=' .. form return { full = url, partial = partialurl } end

return p