Questions about custom extensions

Author Message

Deepin Prayag

Friday 25 August 2006 8:12:34 am

Hi,
I have two questions:

Question 1
Can an extension contain multiple modules with each of those modules having more than one view? If so, how do we go about creating one such custom extension?

Question 2
Modules, datatypes, events, and template operators are all forms/types of extensions that can be customised. Right?
In a single custom extension, can there be a module, a new datatype, a new event, and custom template operators? If so, how are they related, and how can they be included in a custom extension?

Felix Woldt

Saturday 26 August 2006 8:54:14 am

Hi Deepin,

1. Yes you can have different modules with different views in one extension!

for example:

filesystem structure

extension/
- myextension/
    - modules/
       - mymodul/
           - script1.php
           - script2.php
           - module.php
       - mymodul2/
           - script3.php
           - script4.php
           - module.php

    - settings/
         - module.ini.append.php

Access Urls:

 ... index.php/siteaccess/ mymodul / view1
 ... index.php/siteaccess/ mymodul / view2

 ... index.php/siteaccess/ mymodul2 / view1
 ... index.php/siteaccess/ mymodul2 / view2

For each module you can set the views in the module.php:
mymodul/module.php

<?php

$Module = array( "name" => "MyModule" );

$ViewList = array();

$ViewList['view1'] = array(
	"script" => 'script1.php',
	"params" => array( ) );

$ViewList['view2'] = array(
	"script" => 'script2.php',
	"params" => array( ) );	

?>

mymodul2/module.php

<?php

$Module = array( "name" => "MyModule 2" );

$ViewList = array();

$ViewList['view1'] = array(
	"script" => 'script3.php',
	"params" => array( ) );

$ViewList['view2'] = array(
	"script" => 'script4.php',
	"params" => array( ) );	

?>

That the module would be find from eZ you have to register the extension in which eZ will looking for modules:

settings/module.ini.append.php

<?php /*
[ModuleSettings]
ExtensionRepositories[]=myextension
*/ ?>

===========

2. Have a look to the extension extension_builder

http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/extension_manager

online demo: choose all what you want and then the extension will be generated.
http://www.xl714.info/index.php?/site/mes_scripts/ez_extension_builder

Its a very complex thema to generate an extension.

Have a look to the documentation:
http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/documentation/development/extensions (choose a topic in the right menu)

Hope this will help a little bit.

Best Regards
Felix Woldt

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Deepin Prayag

Monday 28 August 2006 12:12:17 am

Hi, Felix

Thanks a lot for the code snippets and the url links.

Cheers,
Deepin

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