Here are various tutorials to help new contributors developing plugins for Mahara.
...customise your Mahara - e.g. change the language/theme, or simply install plugins, check out the [[Customising]] section.
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...t button to any Mahara view. We'll see what is needed to write a blocktype plugin for Mahara - what are the minimal required files, what is the folder struct
...er structure. Let assume, we will call our plugin Tweety - the name of the plugin must be <strong>unique</strong>. So you'll need at least those files (place
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[[Category:Plugins]][[Category:Blocktype Plugins]]
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...tal to its structure. Parts of these components may be pluggable using the plugin system.
...users to register for the system, and manages their accounts. Many of the plugin types apply to aspects of users too. For example, auth controls how users a
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Blocktypes
...Developer_Area/Core_Subsystems/Artefact_Plugins_//_Artefact_Types|Artefact Plugins / Artefact Types]]
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..., blocks for views, methods for authentication and more. Here is a list of plugins developed by members of the community.
If you have a plugin that you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you! Post on the [htt
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...alendars, polls etc, then you're probably going to be creating an artefact plugin to provide it. <br /><br /> Artefacts can belong to users, groups, institut
==Basics of an Artefact Plugin==
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== Jmol/JSmol plugin ==
Mahara artefact file blocktype jmol/jsmol plugin
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...standing of how Mahara fits together, and how you can extend it by writing plugins or hacking on the core code.
...work within it, such as libraries for database access/form building, and a plugin architecture that allows you to keep your customisations away from hacking
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...e that may become part of Mahara core in 18.10, plugins of type blocktype, plugins of type module with webservices.
...from the plan blocktype when the view is in editing mode, allowing module plugins to extend group menu items and more.
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'''How Europass plugin works?'''
The plugin creates XML file, which contains your data. Then it sends that XML file via
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== Continuing Professional Development (CPD) log plugin ==
This Mahara plugin allows a simple log of CPD activity to be maintained. The code was based on
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...ground-color: rgb(255, 204, 204)">'''Note''': with the release of 1.1, the blocktype API has changed slightly, so some parts of this documentation may be out o
...bbed panel at the top of the page and can be dragged on to a view. Example blocktypes include "Blog Post", "Profile Information" and "Text Box". Note that this
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...ownload, you can browse a list of them at [[Plugins|http://wiki.mahara.org/Plugins]]
Mahara has a highly pluggable architecture. Currently, you can write plugins for authentication, content types (artefacts), blocks, notifications, sear
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http://www.yourdomain/admin/extensions/plugins.php
Plugin type: Artefact
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...rt about the template file is its location. Each template file (except for plugin template files) should have a copy under '''htdocs/theme/raw/templates'''.
=== Plugin templates ===
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...ype='learningstyles';<br /> DELETE FROM blocktype_installed_viewtype WHERE blocktype='multipleintelligences';</code><br />
...ype='learningstyles';<br /> DELETE FROM blocktype_installed_category WHERE blocktype='multipleintelligences';</code><br />
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== Jmol NIH plugin ==
...plugin (right) alongside the same structure displayed with the Chem 2D NIH plugin (left). Note that this is just an image of the Jmol applets, not the intera
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...r for admins to see which blocktypes represent the most popular artefacts. Blocktypes like wall, inbox and others that you can only place on the dashboard and
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* Site admin can disable artefact and blocktype plugins
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...ion plugin_types(), see lib/mahara.php. At the time of writing this, seven plugin types are known:
* blocktype
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# Find '''Plugin type: artefact''' section, find '''learning''' and click '''Install''' link
...also click '''Install''' link (see [[@api/deki/files/291/=install-learning-blocktypes.png|image]])
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* Site admins can now disable artefact and blocktype plugins
* Added a new blocktype for specifying a license for a View
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== Mahara FreeMind mind map plugin ==
...te that this is a static image of the embedded FreeMind plugin, the actual plugin has an interactive display of the mind map.''
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==Plugin type: blocktype==
* Directory: $MAHARA/blocktype
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...tory for each plugintype to customize the appearance of plugins (artefact, blocktype, etc). New theme developers told us this was confusing, especially when we
...ved all the theme files for plugins with a theme, into a directory called "plugintype"
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The table below has examples of the code differences required for plugins in Mahara 1.3 and Mahara 1.4.
...in Mahara 1.4 or backporting a plugin to Mahara 1.3 and ensuring that the plugins are correctly located on the menu bar
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...nd.htm crond]. ;) The main reason for this is to make it easier for Mahara plugins to register new cron tasks, that can run at different intervals or times o
Cron tasks pertaining to Mahara core (as opposed to a plugin) are stored in the aptly named '''cron''' table. Its most important field i
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...APIs, such as the blocktype API, have changed a bit since 1.0. Your custom plugins may need updating, you are encouraged (as always) to test before upgrading
** New blocktypes are provided to help users show their information - My Views, My Groups,
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...APIs, such as the blocktype API, have changed a bit since 1.0. Your custom plugins may need updating, you are encouraged (as always) to test before upgrading
** New blocktypes are provided to help users show their information - My Views, My Groups,
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...should also receive a security review. Catalyst has only looked into some blocktypes that were relevant to Catalyst work a few years ago.
**Think about gradebook plugin, but still more to talk with homeschool people who are the main group of pe
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...ll out, about learning styles and multiple intelligences. It also provides blocktypes for Views that show the results in diagram/piechart form using Flash.
The plugin is authored by [http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=36 Gregor Anželj].
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*** 'artefact.blog': For the "blog" artefact plugin
The code that makes this work is in htdocs/lib/dwoo/mahara/plugins/function.str.php
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...uests that run functions in Mahara and/or return data about Mahara. Mahara plugins can expose "service groups", which are sets of functionality to be accesse
...ring HTTP requests that access webservices on outside applications. Mahara plugins can use the "Connection Manager" interface to describe incoming webservice
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You will probably also want to override some of the standard plugin stylesheets too. For example, if you want to change the look of the forums
Templates for Mahara core (i.e. everything that's not a plugin) are stored in <code>htdocs/theme/{$themename}/templates</code>, stylesheet
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==== Plugin tables (_installed, _cron, _event_subscriptions)====
...<plugintype>_installed", "<plugintype>_config", "<plugintype>_cron", and "<plugintype>_event_subscriptions". Additionally, there are "core" tables that paral
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===Artefact plugins===
===Search plugins===
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The "/local" directory is just one way to customize Mahara. Plugins and Themes are the other main ways to do this. See [[Customising]] for the
...de.php" files. These act similarly to how they would for a standard Mahara plugin. When Mahara is first being installed, any database structures defined in l
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= What is the Cloud Services Plugin =
The initial idea behind ''Repository'' plugin was to upgrade Mahara in a way that Mahara would allow users to connect to
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...very suited to task based navigation, currently it's based around Mahara's plugin structure
...of blocktype configuration. In Mahara 1.1, we changed the configuration of blocktypes to open up a modal window, rather than trying to display the form within
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...needed within Mahara for this. This might be developed as another export plugin type which would allow for more flexibility if later iterations required mo
...much the same way as the existing print functionality, or with the use of blocktype functions similar to the ''render_self'' functionality like default view
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And I expand "External" node in the "blocktype sidebar" property<br />
And I follow "Note" in the "blocktype sidebar" property<br />
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...be integrated in future, as well as implementing a standalone HTML export plugin and fully integrating the work into the UI.
When modifying a blocktype, view structure or artefacts, or anything that needs to be added to an exp
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Revisit the way resume field blocktypes are added, configured, and copied and rewrite where required.
Indexed fulltext search. Bring the old solr search plugin up to date.
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これを動作させるコードは次のとおりです: htdocs/lib/dwoo/mahara/plugins/function.str.php
...ァイルは<tt>$cfg->dirroot/{plugintype}/{pluginname}/lang/en.utf8/{plugintype}.{pluginname}.phpのように配置されます。
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