Introduction

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Building XOOPS modules

Originally written by KaotiK, complete revision by Kevin Petit

for XOOPS 2.5.8

This book is currently undergoing a revision - not all parts are up-to-date!.

Developer Manual

© 2016 XOOPS Project (www.xoops.org)

This book will learn you how to build modules for XOOPS. You are assumed to have at least a basic understanding of HTML, SQL and PHP.

Table of Content

• Guidelines for module development
• Building your first module

  • Hello world!
  • Memberlist
  • Translations
  • Database
  • Building a form
  • Storing information in the database
  • Listing information in the database
• Smarty and sanitation

  • Introduction to Smarty
  • Moving to Smarty
  • Forms in Smarty
  • Text sanitation
• Part 3 - Building an AJAX Module
• Part 4 - Xoops Blocks
• Part 6 - Theme Development
• Part 7 - $_SUPER GLOBALS How to use them in a XOOPS module
• Part 8 - DB Operations and Classes //delete, if not used
• Part 9 - Jquery and Javascript, a simple beginning
• Part 10 - Admin menus and Jquery
• Part 11 - Jquery: Form Validation+Rounded Corners+List Items
• Part 12 - Cloning functions, a diferent approach dealing with classes.
• Credits

License:

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All derivative works are to be attributed to XOOPS Project (www.xoops.org)