Correct custom extension directory structure

Friday 26 October 2007 8:06:03 am

Hi,

I am experimenting with creating my own extension modules eZ, primarily going by the technical documentation available on the eZ site, and by looking at the existing modules and datatypes. There are a few questions that I had not been able to answer for myself by just reading the manuals.

From the documentation it seems that new modules should be built as extensions. The article I've been following is the Module tutorial (Part 1) (http://ez.no/ezpublish/documentation/development/extensions/module/module_tutorial_part_1). My intuitive understanding (although I never encountered it spelled out in these documents) is that one extension can have more than a single module. But here is the confusion : the article's author uses identical names for the extension directory and the directory where the module is placed, for example:

(/extension/mymodule)/modules/mymodule

then in module.ini.append file

[ModuleSettings]
ExtensionRepositories[]=mymodule

So in short my question is: can there be more than one module under one extension? If not, do the extension directory an the module directory always have to be named identically?

Maybe the answer is self-evident to more experienced eZ users, but I couldn't figure it out after a few trials and mostly errors.

Thanks

Saturday 27 October 2007 2:50:22 am

Hi,

That's common practice to add a prefix to your extension to avoid namespace clashes.

Eg: Heath would start with bc, someone from ez with ez...

X+

P.S. That's a convention, feel free to do otherwise, like I do ;)

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Monday 29 October 2007 11:22:35 pm

Hi

Please take a look at the eZ Network development guidelines as well. http://ez.no/services/eznetwork/development_guidelines The document also contains other information you might find handy.

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