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>Installing your application</TITLE
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>phpGroupWare Docs V0.05</TH
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CLASS="CHAPTER"
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NAME="DEVINSTALL"
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>Chapter 23. Installing your application</A
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><DT
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>Table of Contents</B
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><A
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN321"
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>Overview</A
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN324"
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>Automatic features</A
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><A
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN339"
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>Adding files, directories and icons.</A
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN343"
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>Making phpGroupWare aware of your application</A
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><DT
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN347"
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>Hooking into Administration page</A
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><A
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN359"
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>section_start</A
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><A
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN366"
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>section_end</A
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></DT
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><DT
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><A
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HREF="devinstall.html#AEN370"
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>Hooking into Preferences page</A
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CLASS="SIMPLESECT"
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><H4
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NAME="AEN321"
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>Overview</A
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><P
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>It is fairly simple to add and delete applications to/from phpGroupWare.</P
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CLASS="SIMPLESECT"
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><H4
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NAME="AEN324"
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>Automatic features</A
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><P
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> To make things easy for developers we go ahead and load the following files.
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<P
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></P
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><UL
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><LI
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> <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>appname/inc/functions.inc.php</TT
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> - This file should include
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all your application specific functions.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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> <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>appname/inc/header.inc.php</TT
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> - This file is loaded by
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<TT
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CLASS="CLASSNAME"
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>$phpgw->common->header</TT
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> just after the system header/navbar,
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and allows developers to use it for whatever they need to load.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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> <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>appname/inc/footer.inc.php</TT
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> - This file is loaded by
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<TT
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CLASS="CLASSNAME"
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>$phpgw->common->footer</TT
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> just before the system footer,
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allowing developers to close connections and whatever else they need.</P
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></LI
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></UL
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>
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</P
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><DIV
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><H4
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><A
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NAME="AEN339"
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>Adding files, directories and icons.</A
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></H4
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><P
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> You will need to create the following directories for your code
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(replace 'appname' with your application name)
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BORDER="0"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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><TR
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><TD
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><PRE
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CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
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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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></TD
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></TR
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></TABLE
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>
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</P
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><H4
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NAME="AEN343"
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>Making phpGroupWare aware of your application</A
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> 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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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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><TR
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CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
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> insert into applications (app_name, app_title, app_enabled) values ('appname', 'The App name', 1);</PRE
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></TD
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>
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</P
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NAME="AEN347"
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>Hooking into Administration page</A
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><P
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> 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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Simple Example:
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CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
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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=\"" . $phpgw->link("myAdminPage.php") . "\">";
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echo lang("Change myApp settings") . "</a>";
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section_end();
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?>
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</PRE
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>
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Look at headlines/inc/admin.inc.php and admin/inc/admin.inc.php for more examples.
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Things to note:
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STYLE="list-style-type: disc"
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>Links are relative to the <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>admin/index.php</TT
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> file, not your
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application's base directory. (so use <TT
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CLASS="CLASSNAME"
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>$appname</TT
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> in your
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<TT
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CLASS="CLASSNAME"
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>link()</TT
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> calls)</P
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></LI
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STYLE="list-style-type: disc"
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>The file is brought in with include() so be careful to not pollute the name-space
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too much</P
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></LI
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>
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The standard $phpgw and $phpgw_info variables are in-scope, as is $appname
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which corresponds to the application name in the path.
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There are 2 functions to coordinate the display of each application's links,
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section_start() and section_end()
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</P
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>section_start</A
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> <TT
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CLASS="CLASSNAME"
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>section_start($title,$icon_url)</TT
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starts the section for your application. <TT
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>$title</TT
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> is passed through
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<TT
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CLASS="CLASSNAME"
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>lang()</TT
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>
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for you. <TT
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>$icon_url</TT
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> should be page-relative to admin/index.php or
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an absolute URL.
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</P
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>section_end</A
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></H4
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><P
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> <TT
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CLASS="CLASSNAME"
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>section_end()</TT
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> closes the section that was started with section_start().
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</P
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>Hooking into Preferences page</A
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></H4
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><P
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> 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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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>appname/inc/preferences.inc.php</TT
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> instead of
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>appname/inc/admin.inc.php</TT
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>. The same functions and variables are defined.
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</P
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