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kaotik
Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/17 11:09

  • kaotik

  • Just can't stay away

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  • Since: 2004/2/19


This tutorial has guidelines for aspiring module developers (and the pros too if they want ). These however are based on my own experience and years of using xoops. Other developers might disagree with some of these points so please take them as a starting point. You will eventually form your own opinion about each of these points.

Part 5 - Guidelines for Module Development

I'll be updating this tutorial so check back once in a while.
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rlankford
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/17 11:13

  • rlankford

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 158

  • Since: 2004/8/27


Good work! I enjoyed reading it.
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sato-san
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/17 11:19

  • sato-san

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  • Posts: 224

  • Since: 2005/7/1 1


Great, im would like this translate for german users.
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kaotik
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/17 11:25

  • kaotik

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  • Since: 2004/2/19


Anyone who would like to translate my tutorials are free to do so! I in fact, encourage it!
Small note: if you are going to translate my tutorials, please be careful with the code parts. Keep them readable for your users. Personally I like to have all code highlighted in a different background color so that it's clear what those lines are.
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markesh
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/20 13:01

  • markesh

  • Just popping in

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  • Since: 2007/7/14


great tutorials, thanks a lot for this collection.

I've still got a question concering the xoops_version.php:

how do I create a line feed in the text? e.g. I want to have an output (click on the module info symbol) like this:

Description:
line 1
line 2

I've fiddled around with br-Tag, \n with and without '', "" etc. but didn't succeed.

Also if there are German Umlauts encoded in the text XOOPS doesn't show them properly but masks the "&" with an additional "&"

TIA & kind regards
markesh/karim
First German XOOPS book: XOOPS-Buch.de
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kaotik
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/20 14:37

  • kaotik

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I would also like to know the answer to that question . I couldn't get it work either.
Regarding german characters, the info page is created with content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" independent of what you set in global.php
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markesh
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/20 16:07

  • markesh

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  • Since: 2007/7/14


thanks a lot, kaotik, so at least I know that I'm not the only one

I've had a look at the /system/admin.php, which invokes the info, but that wasn't really helpful.

If I use "\n", the browser windows doesn't show anything of this, but the source code has a line break. There's a javascript link for closing the window, but this doesn't help me, either.


As for the German special characters: If I use the ä, ü, ö directly, they appear quite fine.

kind regards
markesh/karim
First German XOOPS book: XOOPS-Buch.de
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jcmors
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/21 23:56

  • jcmors

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  • Since: 2005/7/12


What a great tutorial and one that imho was much needed! Is the tutorial set downloadable for review and working with offline in some form?
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skenow
Re: Tutorial - Part 5 - Guidlines for Module Development

  • 2007/9/22 1:19

  • skenow

  • Home away from home

  • Posts: 993

  • Since: 2004/11/17


Quote:

sato-san wrote:
Great, im would like this translate for german users.


All of Kaotik's tutorials are available at XOOPSwiki - work is being done there to translate them. Other translators are welcome to join in and help with any documentation you find there.

We also hope to have downloadable versions available as the documents are completed.

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