Getting Started With Feature Development

So, you've built a Module ( ModuleCreationDev ) or two and are ready to build a full Feature?

I won't be delving too deeply into the internals of your feature, but instead focusing more heavily on the current system of integrating that feature into the rest of the TikiWiki framework. Basically, a feature needs to do several things:

• Use AdminFeatures to turn itself On/Off
• Initialize itself in php-setup
• Display a menu in the ApplicationMenu
• Expose itself for administration in either the Admin Menu or Section

Turning a Feature On/Off

In tikiwiki, all features are enabled or disabled through the use of the Admin Control Panel Features which can be found in the control panel. It is quite simple to add your feature to this list. Just copy a line from an existing feature in the template file ( tiki/tiki-admin-include-features.tpl ) and replace the old feature name with the new. Then do the same thing in the php file ( /tiki/tiki-admin.php ) so that the setting is recorded.

Initialization in php-setup

Adding to the AdminMenu

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