How to Create Modules in Pligg 2

As I mentioned earlier, for came2pass.com I had promised any changes to the site would be submitted back to the community for other Pligg administrators to use. I have had several ideas of new functionality for Pligg, of which I am developing. You can expect those in the coming months. Pligg actually makes it really easy to add new functionality with a very little documented plugin architecture called Modules. I have decided to document it here for others to use. It is my hope this can expand the Pligg community even faster than before. I’d like to start this with a disclaimer that I am not a PHP developer as my first trade - my experience roots in Perl, but I do a little PHP as well for my job. So if my terminology is incorrect, please forgive me - it is my intention to have this out there as a service to the community. I am also an outsider - I did not write the Pligg code, and I have not until recently gotten involved with the Pligg community. I have only recently begun to read the Pligg internals, and I try to note my lack of knowledge in the areas I still don’t fully understand. I’ll update this blog entry if I stand corrected in anything, and if anything needs to be added.

While I’d like to delve in immediately on Modules, I should probably preface that there are actually 2 extendible architecture types in Pligg. The first is Pligg’s Module system, a pluggable architecture to extend Pligg functionality. The second are Pligg templates. These allow you to customize your own look and feel, and perhaps even add a few extra functional elements to Pligg as well. Because there is already a vast amount of documentation on the web for templates, I’ll save that for later. Today I’ll focus on Pligg Modules.