#1043 - Coding a new module based on catalogues tutorial

By Duck
Added 19th Feb 2013, 11:12 PM
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Identifier	#1043
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Coding a new module based on catalogues tutorial
Status	Closed (rejected)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	General / Uncategorised
Description	Since you are requesting tutorial ideas I would like to see more coding for Composr tutorials and perhaps a completely new module tutorial that uses the catalogue system as its base would be nice. I see a lot of addons are based on the catalogue system like say classifieds or ecommerce but a tutorial explaining exactly how it was built would be much easier to learn adding to the system than having to disect add-ons and figure it out. The codebook and such has some great stuff but a practical tutorial based on a front to finish full module would be nice.
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By Guest posted 2nd Dec 2014, 12:56 PM

TBH, 99% of the time programmers shouldn't do it, it's a very special case. I regret we did the eCommerce products through catalogues, if doing it again we'd use them for custom fields but otherwise implement it as a totally new content type. That's a close-thing though. Classifieds is kind of bolted on, doing validation/devalidation behind-the-scenes so is a special case.

We could do a worked example, but there are so many addons nowadays, we're swimming in examples. Probably for v10 I'd just advise people to look at the iotds addon (which is no longer going to be a bundled addon, so you could very easily download the tar and examine all the different hooks etc in there).