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Tuesday
27
Oct
2009
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Tutorial - Creating a SPIP Plugin: Part 4 » SPIP Functions

Now for part 4 of the SPIP plugin tutorial. If you haven’t read the proceeding parts of the tutorial you should check out part 1, part 2 and part 3 before continuing. In this part of the tutorial I will get a little deeper into how SPIP works and how this will affect how your plugin is made. It is important that you understand these concepts especially if you wish to create a complex plugin. SPIP automagically performs functions using a charger function. This function takes two parameters; (...)
SPIP , Tutorials , Plugins
Sunday
25
Oct
2009
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SPIP Override

As some may have noticed when making sites in SPIP the jQuery library that comes with the package is way out of date. Unfortunately when you add #INSERT_HEAD to your template this old file is added and creates errors when you try and manually add your own. There is a simple little fix for this and I will explain how to do it and why it works. In the past we would simply not use #INSERT_HEAD and instead create our own head template with the up to date jQuery library. The problem with this (...)
SPIP , Tutorials
Sunday
25
Oct
2009
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Tutorial - Creating a SPIP Plugin: Part 3 » Options, Functions & Pipelines

So now we’ve covered the plugin.xml file & plugin installation. Now we will cover the options and fonctions files as well as the pipelines that we put into our plugin.xml file. Options If you remember back to part 1 of the tutorial we have the option of using an options file using: <options>prefix_options.php</options> We will put this in the root of our plugin but you can put it wherever you want as long as you specify the directory in the xml. This file is used to set (...)
SPIP , Tutorials , Plugins
Saturday
17
Oct
2009
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Tutorial - Creating a SPIP Plugin: Part 2 » Plugin Installation

In the previous part of this tutorial I went through the plugin.xml file which is the backbone to your SPIP plugin. This part will focus on what is needed to install the plugin and setting up the database tables. Install Plugin The first thing we need to do is create our install file. All of our setup files will be placed inside the ’base’ folder. The name of our install file will be the prefix of the plugin followed by ’_upgrade.php’ eg. odyssey_upgrade.php. Inside this file we need two (...)
SPIP , Tutorials , Plugins
Tuesday
13
Oct
2009
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Tutorial - Creating a SPIP Plugin: Part 1 » Plugin.xml

In part 1 of the tutorial on creating a SPIP plugin I’m going to go over the biggest requirement of the plugin, the plugin.xml file. The plugin.xml file contains all the general information about your plugin as well as all the pipelines it uses. Here is the minimum that it needs to have: <plugin> <nom>New Plugin</nom> <auteur>Stacker</auteur> <licence>GNU/GLP</licence> (...)
SPIP , Tutorials , Plugins
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