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places that were including the footer.inc.php to use the function. Re-arrange phpgw.inc.php to include optional classes after reading the DB config misc bugfixes.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
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<TITLE> phpGroupWare Application Development: Installing your application</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Installing your application</A></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Overview</A>
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</H2>
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<P>It is fairly simple to add and delete applications to/from phpGroupWare.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 Automatic features</A>
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</H2>
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<P>To make things easy for developers we go ahead and load the following files.
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<UL>
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<LI> appname/inc/functions.inc.php - This file should include all your application specific functions.</LI>
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<LI> appname/inc/header.inc.php - This file is loaded by <CODE>$phpgw->common->header</CODE> just after the system header/navbar, and allows developers to use it for whatever they need to load.</LI>
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<LI> appname/inc/footer.inc.php - This file is loaded by <CODE>$phpgw->common->footer</CODE> just before the system footer, allowing developers to close connections and whatever else they need.</LI>
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</UL>
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.3">3.3 Adding files, directories and icons.</A>
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</H2>
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<P>You will need to create the following directories for your code <BR>
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(replace 'appname' with your application name)<BR>
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<PRE>
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`-- appname
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`-- images
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| `-- navbar.gif
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`-- inc
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| |-- functions.inc.php
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| |-- header.inc.php
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| |-- footer.inc.php
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| |-- preferences.inc.php
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| `-- admin.inc.php
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`-- templates
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`-- default
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</PRE>
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.4">3.4 Making phpGroupWare aware of your application</A>
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</H2>
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<P>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.
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<PRE>
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insert into applications (app_name, app_title, app_enabled) values ('appname', 'The App name', 1);
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</PRE>
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.5">3.5 Hooking into Administration page</A>
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</H2>
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<P>When a user goes to the Administration page, it stats appname/inc/admin.inc.php
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for each application that is enabled, in alphabetical order of application title.
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If the file exists, it is include()d in the hopes it will display a selection of
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links to configure that application.
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<P>Simple Example:
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<PRE>
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<?php
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$img = "/" . $appname . "/images/navbar.gif";
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section_start("My Application",$img);
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echo "<a HREF=\"" . $phpgw->link("myAdminPage.php") . "\">";
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echo lang("Change myApp settings") . "</a>";
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section_end();
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?>
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</PRE>
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<HR>
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Look at headlines/inc/admin.inc.php and admin/inc/admin.inc.php for more examples.
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<P>Things to note:
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<UL>
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<LI>Links are relative to the admin/index.php file, not your application's
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base directory. (so use <CODE>$appname</CODE> in your <CODE>link()</CODE> calls)</LI>
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<LI>The file is brought in with include() so be careful to not pollute the name-space too much</LI>
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</UL>
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The standard $phpgw and $phpgw_info variables are in-scope, as is $appname
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which corresponds to the application name in the path.
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<P>There are 2 functions to coordinate the display of each application's links,
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section_start() and section_end()
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<H3>section_start</H3>
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<P><CODE>section_start($title,$icon_url)</CODE>
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starts the section for your application. <CODE>$title</CODE> is passed through <CODE>lang()</CODE>
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for you. <CODE>$icon_url</CODE> should be page-relative to admin/index.php or an absolute URL.
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<P>
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<H3>section_end</H3>
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<P><CODE>section_end()</CODE> closes the section that was started with section_start().
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.6">3.6 Hooking into Preferences page</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The mechanism to hook into the preferences page is identical to the one used to
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hook into the administration page, however it looks for
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<CODE>appname/inc/preferences.inc.php</CODE> instead of
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<CODE>appname/inc/admin.inc.php</CODE>. The same functions and variables are defined.
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