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#31 2005-05-24 22:57:19
- Mary
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Awesome!
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#32 2005-05-25 01:58:39
- Mary
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Okay, I must have missed a step or done something stupid.
Try and view my (dev) Txp site – either public or admin, and all I see is my base64-ed plugin string. Any ideas?
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Mary – don’t put zem_tpl in the directory with your plugin. I did the same thing at first.
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#34 2005-05-25 03:04:07
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Ah okay. Thanks! Of late Firefox has been acting weird when compiling the plugin, so it was taking forever going back and forth. Now I can be in plugin-making bliss. :)
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Sweetness. It was the relative path that was causing me a problem. Switched to absolute and it working fine now, front end and admin plugins.
Also, FYI, its not totally necessary for the filename to be the same as long as you uncomment the line that reads
<code>$plugin[‘name’] = ‘your_plugin_name’;</code>
and set the proper plugin name.
Last edited by wilshire (2005-05-25 16:14:50)
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#36 2005-05-25 19:12:32
- Mary
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Yep, that’s what I did, adjusted zem’s template to add that field and also the type (admin) option – better to do it from the start or else I’d forget it altogether.
I’m so hyper. This has allowed me to do some real work on a plugin, without wasting my time fiddling around. Muchas gracias, Alex and Sencer!
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
just downloaded the zem_tpl and plugin template, put in my plugin-code and textile help. now, compiling…I’m on windows, and unfortunately ‘php’ is not a valid Windows command-line command. so how do I complile plugins on my local windows setup? (I’m using the XAMMP apache/php/ mysql package if this helps)
Last edited by marz (2005-05-26 18:01:36)
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#38 2005-05-26 18:14:49
- Mary
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Doesn’t quite work that way.
The idea is you put your plugin, the tpl and the Textile class (or link to it, see the first part of zem_tpl) in the same folder, and open up your plugin php file in your browser. You’ll get the plugin string spit out.
Before you do that though, put only your plugin file in the tmp folder (and the rest of the instructions above). Textpattern will run, and your plugin will be already installed and activated. That way, you can get your plugin all done, then run it as I’ve mentioned above to create the plugin string for others to use.
Does that help any?
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Actually there is a command-line php in the windows binary distribution, too. It’s in the CLI directory of PHP. You have to adjust paths or copy some files around, though. So it’s probably easier to just do it as mary described it and call the file from the browser, the result will be the same.
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
hey, that helps alot! thanx mary
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#41 2005-06-05 00:34:40
- Andrew
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
So I’m curious of other people who are using zem’s template (zem_tpl.php) if you are able to get text to appear in Firefox for OSX. That browser just seems to not like the mime type & shows a blank page, even when viewing source. I also notice this same behavior for some of mary’s plugins as well as wilshire’s. It doesn’t appear to be dependent on PHP version, as I’ve seen it on everything from php4 to php5. I’m wondering if other browsers also behave this way and if it’s a bug with Firefox or with how the plugin code is being served up.
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#42 2005-06-05 00:39:29
- zem
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Can you be a bit more explicit about what you’re doing and what’s happening? Is this when you’re compiling a plugin, running it, installing it, or what?
Alex
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#43 2005-06-05 00:42:22
- Andrew
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Ah yes… the blank page occurs in Firefox/OSX when you try to access the compiled plugin via a download link (any average end-user trying to download the plugin).
Last edited by Andrew (2005-06-05 00:46:14)
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Both paste and download version (if available that is)?
Plugins: ob1_advanced_search 1.032b, ob1_search_score 1.0, ob1_pagination 2.5, ob1_title 4.1, ob1_modified 2.1
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
— Sun Tzu
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#45 2005-06-05 00:49:45
- Andrew
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Re: Txp Plugin Template for Developers
Ah ok I see now. Just simply clicking the link returns a blank page; saving the link to disk serves up the plugin code. Weird behavior.
Examples: all of my plugins, all of mary’s plugins (such as this), some of wilshire’s plugins (such as this but not this ?)
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