Re: [pLog-General] Improving the plugin system...

[Reto H. <pl...@hu...>]

At 14:45 01.05.2004, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>> - The new plugin framework will allow more complex plugins. If they are
>> properly OO written, they might need a lot of classes/files. Maybe a
>> new folder structure like /plugins/myplugin/<mypluginfiles> would keep
>> the things clean.

> That's exactly how it's been implemented for next version. The idea is
> that plugins are self-contained in their own folders. Though it will
> completely be up to the plugin developer where to put things, at least
> this is what we will recommend from here.

Great!

> Yeah, that's something I haven't solved yet. But I agree with the idea,
> localized strings is something the plugin should provide and the locale
> file(s) should be saved under plugins/myplugin/locale. The only problem
> is what happens when the blog is using zh_TW and the plugin doesn't 
> come with this one... Should we use en_UK as default? Or force the 
> plugin to inform the PluginManager which locales provides?

I think this should be a standard configuration option of the plugin.
The user choses the language at the initial setup. (And can change it
anytime of course).

> Also, the same issue exists with templates but I have already taken 
> care of that one :) Plugin templates must be stored in 
> plugins/myplugin/templates and I have defined a couple of new methods
> that will fetch templates from plugin-specific folders instead of from
> the main templates/ folder.

Cool, haven't thought of that. But that would actually very useful
with my contactForm plugin :)


>> - plugins should have an option to be removeable from the database.
>> (the question here is, if the framework provides this or if this is
>> left to the plugin author

> What do you mean? You mean, their own configuration settings and 
> tables, if any was created?

Yes, exactly.

> We could of course force plugins to implement a method called
> PluginBase::getPluginConfigKeys(), or something like that,

That's exactly what I was up to.

reto

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