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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Installing your application</A></H2>
<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Overview</A>
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<P>It is fairly simple to add and delete applications to/from phpGroupWare.
<H2><A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 Automatic features</A>
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<P>To make things easy for developers we go ahead and load the following files.
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<LI> inc/appname/appname.inc.php - This file should include all your application specific functions.</LI>
<LI> inc/appname/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.</LI>
<LI> inc/appname/footer.inc.php - This file is loaded just before the system footer, allowing developers to close connections and whetever else they need.</LI>
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.3">3.3 Adding files, directories and icons.</A>
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<P>You will need to create the following directories for your code <BR>
(replace 'newapp' with your application name)<BR>
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`-- newapp
`-- icons
| `-- navbar.gif
`-- inc
| |-- header.inc.php
| `-- footer.inc.php
|-- lang
| `-- en
| `-- newapp.inc.php
`-- template
`-- default
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.4">3.4 Making phpGroupWare aware of your application</A>
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<P>To make the application aware of your application, add your application setup in the inc/globalconfig.inc.php.<BR>
Simply add the following line just after <CODE>'/* ADD NEW APPS HERE */'</CODE> (replace 'newapp' with your application name)
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$phpgw_info["apps"]["newapp"] = array ("title" => "Title of Application", "enabled" => True);
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