[Xerte-dev] Re: Plugins code added to trunk

[Pat @ Pgogy]

I think a Skype might make sense

I have told cetis that there is a xerte pub camp on the Tuesday.

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On 5 Mar 2013, at 13:57, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> > I think it needs discussing… maybe as part of your structure discussions at CETIS – it’s a pity I can’t make it…
>  
> 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,
>  
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 05 March 2013 11:05
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Plugins code added to trunk
>  
> 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…
>  
> 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
>  
> 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…
>  
> I think it needs discussing… maybe as part of your structure discussions at CETIS – it’s a pity I can’t make it…
>  
> Regards,
>  
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health & Life Sciences
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>  
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:59 AM
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Plugins code added to trunk
>  
> Nice one, this sounds interesting,
>  
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 04 March 2013 16:02
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Plugins code added to trunk
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> 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…
>  
> 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
>  
>  
> PLUGINS, ACTIONS & FILTERS: This code allows you to add a 'plugin' in the
> /plugins folder which will augment functionality provided by XOT. It allows you
> to create single file or folder style plugins (similar to Wordpress) which add
> functionality to various 'hook' points within the page. These hooks are by no
> means definitive and hopefully we can add lots more, however for filters to work
> in a better way some code will need re-written in order to pass 'content'
> through the filter before being used or echo-ed..
>  
> The current files should do nothing to an install. The example plugins are
> commented out - remove the 'REMOVE_THIS' text from the filenames in order to
> activate. The 'GCU Plugin' demonstrates some potentially useful functionality:
>  
> ·         It adds a banner at the top of the page (login and editor)
> ·         It changes the <title> text
> ·         It changes the "My Projects" text to "John's Projects"
> ·         It adds text to Pod 1
> ·         It adds a title slide to data.xml on save
>  
> The plugin_one plugin simply inserts HTML comments at action hook points
> throughout the page. Enable this by taking out REMOVE_THIS and then refresh the
> page and view the source to reveal it's result...
>  
> Regards,
>  
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health & Life Sciences
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>  
> 
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> 
> Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474
> 
> Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009.
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> 
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