3. Installing your application

3.1 Overview

It is fairly simple to add and delete applications to/from phpGroupWare.

3.2 Automatic features

To make things easy for developers we go ahead and load the following files.

• appname/inc/functions.inc.php - This file should include all your application specific functions.
• appname/inc/header.inc.php - This file is loaded just after the system header/navbar, and allows developers to use it for whatever they need to load.
• appname/inc/footer.inc.php - This file is loaded just before the system footer, allowing developers to close connections and whetever else they need.

3.3 Adding files, directories and icons.

You will need to create the following directories for your code
(replace 'appname' with your application name)

  `-- appname
      `-- images
      |   `-- navbar.gif
      `-- inc
      |   |-- functions.inc.php
      |   |-- header.inc.php
      |   `-- footer.inc.php
      `-- templates
          `-- default
  

3.4 Making phpGroupWare aware of your application

To make the application aware of your application, add your application details to the applications table. This can be done via the GUI administration screen, or via a sql script.

  insert into applications (app_name, app_title, app_enabled) values ('appname', 'The App name', 1);