I couldn't reproduce the bug in Page Forms 5.1-alpha with MW 1.36.0-alpha.

1. Can I make the changes directly in the repository's qqq.json? It seems like I need permission to make any change using translatewiki.net.
2. We are working on this, but hopefully, it won't affect the translations, will it?

I don't have translatewiki.net account, but I'll ask if Yaron has one and let you know.

@abi_ I have changed the format to match the one in banana-i18n. Are there any other concerns?

Yes, I am already onto it.
Presently I have implemented a workaround which displays a warning with the section name at the top and displays the form below( Sections might not be parsed correctly but showed as before this change).
Another option is to display just the error message and no form like

I guess the issue is different section names in form definition and the page.
Form: The community/communities behind this submission.
Page: The communities behind this submission.

Sure I'll look for the issue and improvise the code.

Will update the description after checking the feasibility and solving the issues.

I think it has been resolved here T246380

@Yaron_Koren I can't figure out why it isn't working for you even if we are doing the same things, so I have attached my form and page definitions here.
Form definition:

<noinclude>
This is the "Gadgets" form.
To create a page with this form, enter the page name below;
if a page with that name already exists, you will be sent to a form to edit that page.

If I make the change now will it show?

@Sparr I have uploaded a solution https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/PageForms/+/588150. I don't know why it isn't being displayed here. Please give it a try and tell me if it works.

Sorry for so many doubts but I have not researched about dates in this depth before.
Just two more issues an I'll be ready for another patch.
How should these dates be interpreted?

1. March 14( as 14 of March or March of the year 14 )
2. 11/09/08 ( what order of year, month and day)

I was going through the solutions, but the best way is to ensure that the year input is in 4-digit format. In this way, the original code works fine.
Moreover, this will reduce confusion. For example,

I have looked for the following ways to handle all types of date formats:-

1. If the year is input in 4 or 5 digit format then strtotime can take care.
2. If we take years 0-69 as 2000-2069 and 70-99 as 1970-1999 then DateTime class can take care of all types of formats. So to specify year such as 62 we need to type 0062.

According to me, the second option fits well as usually when years are written in two-digit formats those are considered as specified above.
This might not solve this specific issue as desired but it will be able to handle any type of date format.

@Yaron_Koren Could you please specify the date formats so I could try and improvise the code?

Thanks @Carchaias awaiting your response.
Still, I would live to reproduce this issue.@Yaron_Koren Please can you help me how to downgrade my PageForms version.

Thanks @Yaron_Koren
I have tried a few variants with #formlink and tried what was mentioned in the task description, but couldn't experience this.
@Madrigal84 I suggest you, please try this once again as this issue might be fixed.

I know it works with "target" but on the wiki it says
target= - shouldn't usually be used, but it sets the "target" page to be edited if you want to link to the editing of a specific page.
That is why I asked if I was doing something wrong

@Yaron_Koren I have written a statement as : -
{{#formlink:form=Gadgets|link text=Edit gadget|link type=button|query string=Gadgets[model]={{PAGENAME}} }}
Template: Gadgets
Form:Gadgets
Structure is something like

Was this issue fixed in higher versions of PF as I don't seem to face this issue?

I tried to recreate the error by using #formlink parser function as mentioned in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Forms/Linking_to_forms#Using_#formlink, but I couldn't experience that error. I am using the same query as in the first example of the given link.
@Madrigal84 @Yaron_Koren Could you please help me if I might be missing some parameters?

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('F Y', $date);
$d = $date->format('F Y');
This will be able to handle this.(F for full month name)
I will still be looking for a universal solution.

Also, I have another solution. Since there seem to be only three date formats which are working we can use the above checking for each of these formats. These three formats are
Y: 2000
m Y: January 2002 (we can handle another language as well)
Y/m/d : 62/04/25
I might have missed some cases but I have tried all combinations in the date input.
For those cases as well we can apply the same condition.

Oh, it was a typo, works the same.
So should I make the changes?

If finally, strtotime($date) returns null we can check for another condition like:-
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y/m/j', $date);
$d = $date->format('Y/m/d');
Now if $d is null then we return null (as everything is working now), and if it is true then it handles the case of years with less than four digits.
I have tried it, and it seems to work fine with all types of possible inputs of date.

Yes strtotime('62/04/03') gives no result but strtotime('00062/04/03') returns 1044297360

If the input is restricted to a fixed number of digits(here 5) we can add zeros in front of smaller numbers such as 00062

I came across another issue while working on the date input. When the input is set to something like{F31697409}(notice the year field with space), it is correctly displayed in the page{F31697411} but in "edit with form" it shows

@Yaron_Koren Can you please help me about with any discrepancy or enhancements that I could make to the proposal?

I have searched for alternatives, but there doesn't seem to be any. Instead, since we already have testing for several date formats like Month YYYY or YYYY, we can create another test for ancient dates.

Yes, it is true it works fine on a 64-bit system. Somehow if I input the date as 0062/04/21 instead of 62/04/21 it works fine. So I think it just the matter of what dates are actually treated as correct by the strtotime() function.

@Yaron_Koren In the parseDate function we use a PHP function strtotime like:-
$seconds = strtotime( $date );
This function takes initial date as 1st January 1970, so returns null for dates earlier than this.
So instead of returning false when this function gives null, I suggest we should explode the date and return the corresponding values.

@Yaron_Koren While working on the issue I found the problem was in the statement
list( $year, $month, $day ) = self::parseDate( $date );
PHP parser functions take initial date as 1st January 1970. So I suggest instead of using parse date we should explode the date into individual day, month and year, something like this
list( $year, $month, $day ) = explode('/', $date);

Thanks @Aklapper I just got the issue resolved. I was in the core directory instead of cargo directory.

@Yaron_Koren I made following two additions:
.ui-state-focus{

border: none!important;
background: #2a4b8d!important;
color: #fff!important;
margin:0px!important;

}

@Yaron_Koren I went through the code and stylesheets and think the class "ui-state-focus" is creating the issue. For skin Vector it is present in :
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/skins/Vector/+/e19f6da3e09f565cba7ff6189618c6d9d14d42a9/skinStyles/jquery.ui/jquery.ui.theme.css
After removing "ui-state-focus",it looks something like this.

$userName = User::getCanonicalName( $temp_userName , false );
I have changed the statement to something like this.
Also should the condition to check if getCanonicalName returns false be removed or kept.

@Yaron_Koren When I click "Create data table" in template, it throws the following error:

@matej_suchanek Can you help me with the cases when getCanonicalName return false? Also does the initial code handle the case of invalid username.

@Yaron_Koren @Prondubuisi Thanks for the clarification , I'll take up one of them.

@Yaron_Koren I wish to contribute to this projects but seems the microtasks are taken. Are there any other issues to be fixed or methods to contribute to the projects?
Thanks in advance

@matej_suchanek Thanks for the reference. Once I set up the environment, I'll start working.

I would like to work on this task.