Re: [Slashcode-development] Creating a new op for the admin page

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

Just a suggestion - rather then edit admin.pl, create a plugin for your 
new functionality. Your plugin can add a menu item to the admin menu, 
which would call your perl script in your plugin. And when that script 
runs, it can call the admin menu when it runs, so users won't know the 
difference that the new functionality isn't in admin.pl. So if the 
admin plugin's code ever changes, you don't have to worry about it 
because everything you did is in a plugin.

For an example of how this can be done, look at this plugin:

http://dev.lottadot.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/lastlogins/

  Shane


On Dec 23, 2003, at 9:02 AM, Blake Carver wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm working on making a new op for the admin page to edit stuff for 
> users and I'm getting stuck early on.
> Here's what I have. I'm not sure where I've gone wrong, I'm getting no 
> errors back, just a blank page. I'm not sure I'm calling 
> getDescriptions correctly.
> I'm calling my op list_users, so "my $ops" I added:
>               list_users              => {
>                       function        => \&listPeeps,
>                       seclev          => 500,
>                       adminmenu       => 'Users',
>                       tab_selected    => 'users',
>               },
> This calls the sub listPeeps, which is also in admin.pl:
>   my($form, $slashdb, $user, $constants) = @_;
>   my $nickname;
>   my $peeps = $slashdb->getDescriptions('peeps', '', 1);
>   slashDisplay('listPeeps', {
>               nickname  => $nickname
>   });
>
> MySQL.pm is in MySQL.pm, to which I added peeps to %descriptions:
>       'peeps'
>    => sub { $_[0]->sqlSelectMany('seclev, nickname, uid', 'users') },
>
> And all of this needs a new template, listPeeps, which is simply:
> <FORM ACTION="[% env.script_name %]" METHOD="POST">
> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="op" VALUE="vars">
> <TABLE>
> 	<TR>
> 		<TD>Name</TD><TD>[% $nickname %]
> 	</TR>
> </TABLE>
> </FORM>
> The HTML does show up on the admin page, just not the list of 
> nicknames.
>
> Thanks!
> -Blake
>
>
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