9 Replies Latest reply on Feb 26, 2004 4:25 AM by vietk

How do I get involved with helping create modules?

thepriz Feb 6, 2004 3:49 PM

I have worked with postnuke for awhile now. I have a pretty good understanding of how it works. I have been working with nukes for about a month now and am learning all the ins and outs of how it is set up (which was not that hard since it was modeled after postnuke). I am interested in helping out on the downloads module since it doesn't seem to have been implemented yet. It may take me a little while to get it done because I have not delveloped a module before but I am willing to do it which in turn will give me the ability to gain even a deeper understanding of nukes.

By the way this is a great product. I hope to be able to deploy a version of it to replace my postnuke site.

Thanks,
Dennis Przybyla

1. Re: How do I get involved with helping create modules?

thepriz Feb 24, 2004 11:47 AM (in response to thepriz)

Well, no one really answered this question so I went ahead and began porting the postnuke downloads module. I should have a beta version of the module finished by the end of this week (depending on the amount of time I have to work on it). I did the port like the faq and poll modules. I have heard some talk about using templates to do modules. Is there any information on using templates or can someone point me to an example of how to use them?

Thanks,
Dennis Przybyla
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2. Re: How do I get involved with helping create modules?

julien1 Feb 24, 2004 12:02 PM (in response to thepriz)

look at the modules in the core, most of them make usage of templates.

faq and poll have already been ported, unfortunately they don't have a good design enough to be in the 1.0 release.

you can improve them for the 1.x versions.
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3. Re: How do I get involved with helping create modules?

thepriz Feb 24, 2004 12:41 PM (in response to thepriz)

I know they are already ported. I used them to learn how to create modules for nukes. If they are not well designed what improvements do they need? I don't want to use the bad design in my downloads module.

Thanks,
Dennis Przybyla
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4. Re: How do I get involved with helping create modules?

jae77 Feb 24, 2004 12:46 PM (in response to thepriz)

one of my goals in refactoring the news module to use templates is to provide some kind of "framework" that make using templates easy.

check out the wiki site under the theme howto - it's very sparse at the moment, but i'm adding notes as i go along.

for right now, your best bet is to check out the BBTheme and try to follow what's going on in there. i've already started the work to extract that code to be part of the framework, but i'm still a ways off from being ready to commit any changes.
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5. Re: How do I get involved with helping create modules?

jae77 Feb 24, 2004 12:47 PM (in response to thepriz)

"thepriz" wrote:
I know they are already ported. I used them to learn how to create modules for nukes. If they are not well designed what improvements do they need? I don't want to use the bad design in my downloads module.

Thanks,
Dennis Przybyla

that's why we have refactoring. :) get it working first, then go back and clean up your design.
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6. Re: How do I get involved with helping create modules?

julien1 Feb 24, 2004 1:12 PM (in response to thepriz)

Export the HTML into templates first
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julien1 Feb 24, 2004 1:13 PM (in response to thepriz)

kevin added a wiki section about how to use the theme as well
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jae77 Feb 24, 2004 1:51 PM (in response to thepriz)

cool! now i don't have to document it myself :)
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9. Re: How do I get involved with helping create modules?

vietk Feb 26, 2004 4:25 AM (in response to thepriz)

And it is available at
http://jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=TemplateTutorial

Kevin Viet
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