Re: Suggestions of GPL plugin-system?
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:02:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestions of GPL plugin-system? | ||
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I was looking for a similar good-example about 2 years ago. What I found was
Drupal (http://drupal.org/), and it's hook system. I have since given up on
writing my own plugin system and became a small fry Drupal developer. :-)
YMMV.
On Monday 29 January 2007 6:50 am, Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've been developing a GPL PHP/MySQL app for some time now and I would
> like to extend it with a module/plugin system. The idea would be that
> people could add a directory in a plugin path that would contain a
> bunch of PHP files extending the functionality of my application. This
> directory would then be read out, some config file parsed and whatnot,
> after which the module can be turned on by my application.
>
> Now, I could try and figure this out by myself, but that would be
> reinventing the wheel since I'm betting there is some good GPL modular
> software around (such as Joomla, PHP-Nuke, PHPbb, etc, etc.) that you have
> been working with as a coder. Could any of you suggest a certain GPL
> application that has a great module setup that I could take a look at?
>
> Thanks a lot for your time!
>
> Ivo
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