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:

Unless specified, this content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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