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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve just committed the plugins code that I was working on – feel free to give it a try and let me know of any bugs/improvements/concerns and I’ll address them…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is definitely a developer tool so won’t be used by the majority but will allow functionality to be change without checking in code… we could almost have a repository of plugins to allow people to do things that means they don’t need
any PHP experience but can customise their setup… Here is the rather lengthy text I added to the SVN<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">PLUGINS, ACTIONS & FILTERS: This code allows you to add a 'plugin' in the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">/plugins folder which will augment functionality provided by XOT. It allows you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">to create single file or folder style plugins (similar to Wordpress) which add<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">functionality to various 'hook' points within the page. These hooks are by no<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">means definitive and hopefully we can add lots more, however for filters to work<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">in a better way some code will need re-written in order to pass 'content'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">through the filter before being used or echo-ed..<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">The current files should do nothing to an install. The example plugins are<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">commented out - remove the 'REMOVE_THIS' text from the filenames in order to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">activate. The 'GCU Plugin' demonstrates some potentially useful functionality:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>It adds a banner at the top of the page (login and editor)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>It changes the <title> text<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>It changes the "My Projects" text to "John's Projects"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>It adds text to Pod 1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>It adds a title slide to data.xml on save<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">The plugin_one plugin simply inserts HTML comments at action hook points<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">throughout the page. Enable this by taking out REMOVE_THIS and then refresh the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">page and view the source to reveal it's result...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Learning Technologist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Health & Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Glasgow Caledonian University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<font face="Arial" color="Gray" size="2">Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474<br>
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Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009.<br>
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html<br>
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Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners.<br>
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html<br>
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