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#1 2006-07-16 10:16:13

desenso

New Member

Registered: 2006-07-08

Posts: 4

Creating an Admin Plugin With Forms

Hello all,

Textpattern newb here… I sincerely apologize if this has been discussed before, but I couldn’t find any such articles using either the forum search, or anywhere on the Textpattern site, or even using google… perhaps I missed it, as I’m not 100% sure what the best way to search for this would be.

I’m developing a site for a choir, which stores tour information in a mysql database that I setup ages ago… currently, dates and venues are added using a seperate php/html form, and this has always been the case. I’m not interested in migrating the information, because this database is used for many other functions, not just displaying tour information.

HOWEVER, the site is now being migrated to Textpattern (which is wonderful!), and I’d like to see if I can integrate the event form (where someone with limited privileges enters a new tour event into the database) into the admin back-end of Textpattern.

For displaying tour information, as it stands, I’m querying the DB and displaying tour information using raw php/mysql in a page template, which also isn’t ideal, so perhaps I should try and convert that to a plugin too… but my main concern at the moment is how one develops plugins for the administrative backend, employing custom forms, etc. Although it’s perfectly functional at the moment using the external forms that the person has been using the whole time, it’d be much sleeker if I could build this into Textpattern in some way.

Any guidance, links, or tips would be greatly appreciated.

#2 2006-07-16 19:38:15

Mary

Sock Enthusiast

Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 6,236

Re: Creating an Admin Plugin With Forms

Check the stickies of this forum.

I’d recommend that you find an admin-side plugin that does something similar to what you want to acheive, and learn from it how you could go about it.