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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <span lang=EN-US>I think it needs discussing… maybe as part of your structure discussions at CETIS – it’s a pity I can’t make it…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>When should we get together face to face again? And where? There seems like loads going on at the moment, it’s March already and if we wanted to do something, say, end of June, we should maybe plan for that now? Maybe we should also think about the AGM again, and what we want to do with that,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, John<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 March 2013 11:05<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Plugins code added to trunk<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I agree – it gives people who are not that familiar with PHP to add functionality. Someone (might have even been me) at the developer day mentioned the possibility of a ‘code snippet’ library that allow you to tweak things – this could go 5 steps further by giving packaged plugins… we could even move CORE functionality into plugins…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I think we need to treat it as a proof of concept just now though as we need to develop the list of hooks available and decide where we actually do the actions and filters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>For example, I apply a filter to the ‘Pod 1’ text in index.php but it could be that this is better in display_library.php – logged_in_page_format_middle function – OR we decide to move the whole {{pod_one}} replace into a CORE plugin – then it could be removed, added to or detached by a higher priority plugin…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I think it needs discussing… maybe as part of your structure discussions at CETIS – it’s a pity I can’t make it…<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>John Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Learning Technologist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>School of Health & Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Glasgow Caledonian University<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Plugins code added to trunk<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Nice one, this sounds interesting,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, John<br><b>Sent:</b> 04 March 2013 16:02<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Plugins code added to trunk<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>PLUGINS, ACTIONS & FILTERS: This code allows you to add a 'plugin' in the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>/plugins folder which will augment functionality provided by XOT. It allows you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>to create single file or folder style plugins (similar to Wordpress) which add<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>functionality to various 'hook' points within the page. These hooks are by no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>means definitive and hopefully we can add lots more, however for filters to work<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>in a better way some code will need re-written in order to pass 'content'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>through the filter before being used or echo-ed..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>The current files should do nothing to an install. The example plugins are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>commented out - remove the 'REMOVE_THIS' text from the filenames in order to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>activate. The 'GCU Plugin' demonstrates some potentially useful functionality:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>It adds a banner at the top of the page (login and editor)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>It changes the <title> text<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>It changes the "My Projects" text to "John's Projects"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>It adds text to Pod 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>It adds a title slide to data.xml on save<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>The plugin_one plugin simply inserts HTML comments at action hook points<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>throughout the page. Enable this by taking out REMOVE_THIS and then refresh the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>page and view the source to reveal it's result...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>John Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Learning Technologist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>School of Health & Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Glasgow Caledonian University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474<br><br>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009.<br><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html">http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html</a><br><br>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners.<br><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html">http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html</a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474<br><br>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009.<br><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html">http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html</a><br><br>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners.<br><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html">http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html</a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>