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Introduction

by Torben Dannhauer

The process of populating the new module with content/functionality is fairly straight forward and after learning how the Horde API' s work, you should be able to produce new modules in a minimum amount of time.

Jan Schneider talked about this at FOSDEM 2005. You can find his slides at http://www.horde.org/papers/fosdem2005/.

The new module's functionality could by separated in the following aspects:

• Menus
  • Calling-procedure at entering the application
  • Permissions
  • All Content-Pages which are accessible through on oh the menus
  • Services offered to external modules

Menus

In Horde there are two standard menus: The Top Menu an the Side Menu.

ToDo?: Add Links to Wikipages describing menus in detail.

Top Menu

The Top Menü is devided in to 4 sections:

• left: Menuitems provided by this module
  • mid left: Menuitems added manually
  • mid right: Menuitems added in the administrator's setup
  • right: Menuitems provided by horde as default

left

Items ar added in <module>/config/menu.php:

$_menu[] = array(

      'url' =>        'http://www.example.com/',

      'text' =>       'Example, Inc.',

      'icon' =>       'example.png',

      'icon_path' =>  'http://www.example.com/images/',

      'target' =>     '_blank',

      'onclick' =>    ''

  );

Side Menu

Calling procedure at entering the application

Permissions

The module's permissiontree which includes the logical structure of all permissions available in this module is defined in <module>/lib/api.php

Further information about permissions is available at http://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/PermsPackage

Content-Page

Services

Misc

• create .inc files that display the elements on the screen
  • create any php files needed to fill in forms