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Hi

I'm going to be moving my site from Genoa to Siena in the near future, and rather than having to use custom text blocks for some of the data thats shown on the frontpage I want to utilise the plugin framework.

I've found a couple of plugins I want to use, but they are currently Joomla based.  I've checked the PHP of these plugins and it doesn't appear to be massively complicated, however I'm a total PHP newb and am not sure how i'd go about converting them over to work with cotonti's framework.

Would anyone be willing to lend a hand or some in-depth advice?

Thanks

Also, have a look at this: http://www.cotonti.com/news/community/cot_dev_tools_12

I'm not familiar with the Joomla plugin architecture, but if plugins don't have too much Joomla-specific stuff in them it shouldn't be hard.

Can you provide a link to one of the plugins you want to convert?

I'm browsing through the second module you posted, mod_wowboss, and it clearly wont be a simple copy/paste. As you said before, it does seems as though this module is strictly outputting most of the data through an xml file. I can think of several ways that you can accomplish what this plugin is looking for off the top of my head.

1. Create a new SQL file, and create the following tables

• wowboss_area
• wowboss_monster

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `cot_wowboss_area` (
	`id` INT(12) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
	`name` VARCHAR(24) NOT NULL,
	`type` INT(12) NOT NULL,
	PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `cot_wowboss_monster` (
	`id` INT(12) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
	`name` VARCHAR(24) NOT NULL,
	`status` INT(12) NOT NULL,
	PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

Use this as a template. I haven't played WoW in nearly 4 years so I have no idea what columns you will need.

1. In the same SQL File, insert the data using this:

INSERT INTO `cot_wowboss_area` (`name, type`) VALUES ('BOSS_NAME, 10 or 25');

That should do it for your SQL file. Now you need to create the rest of the plugin. You will need a php file for administrations tools (refer to contact plugin -> contact.tools.php). Then you will need a php file to output the information to your index page (refer to the tags plugin -> tags.index.php).

In your admin tools you will need to set it up so you can modify the values you created through your SQL file, and with your index page you need to set it up to display the values from the SQL file.

As I said before; I'll lend a helping hand, but I would like for you to give an honest attempt at it first. The best way to learn is analyzing another developers code. Eventually you will pick up/understand what is going on.

Fraze,

If you are working on a WoW suite for cotonti I can help you out. I have created 90% of the ports we use for our guild side. Sadly because I work in certain areas I cannot give the URL out.. however I can help you on this project if needed. Just let me know.

-M