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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As some may have noticed when making sites in SPIP the jQuery library that comes with the package is way out of date.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
24
Oct
2009
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Album of the Week - Hopes & Fears

Hopes & Fears Keane Hopes & Fears is the debut album from british pop rock band Keane. It was released in May 2004 after several years of playing cover songs and original material live. The album topped the UK charts in its first week and and also had a string of hit singles. As a result of this album Keane also received two Brit Awards for Best Breakthrough Act and Best Album 2005 and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Keane is not the type of music I usually listen to. (...)
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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
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