Welcome to (long awaited) Hook System!

[TommyKaneko]

Hello. Well done for getting the Hook system up and ready in working order! As someone who wants to splice applications together, having a hook system makes things so much easier. Bravo!

I was wondering if there were more hooks than the 4 documented. It would be really great if there was a really long list of hooks like with MediaWiki's Hook System:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Ho ... able_hooks

Anyway, good work!

[Prince of area51]

At the moment there are only four. I believe I read somewhere phpBB 3.2.x will have full working events system (I hope events = hooks).

[naderman]

No, events are not hooks.

[Prince of area51]

No, events are not hooks.

Yep

/me never come and post on area51 when i'm sick and on drugs

[TommyKaneko]

You see, I need new hooks for my project ( http://consensuswiki.org ). Do you think it will be acceptable to add new hooks (the ones I will need) into the phpBB core code and commit the changes into the repository? It will be a permanent addition.

Of course, I'll document it and everything.

[naderman]

If it aren't many and if you can give a good reason why adding them is beneficial in general and not just for you we might think about it.

[Rhodes]

Hi

So, now I would like to use the hook system. Unfortunately I don't get how to do that. I have no clue where to start, reading the docs/hook_system.html doesnt help me getting further. My problem is to understand where I do include what.
Lets say I have my board in <docroot>/phpbb/index.php and another application in <docroot>/mysite/index.php
For instance, if I want on that <docroot>/mysite/index.php a userlogin field, what uses phpbb for registering the users, what does my index.php have to include so that it will use phpbb's userauth via phpbb_user_session_handler();?
Another thing I want to solve is having my mysite's menu on the phpbb page always. There the $template->display hook gets my attention. Now where (which .php file actually) do I implement my function what puts the mysite's menu into the phpbb template?
*confused*

Rhodes

[Acyd Burn]

Do not confuse the hooks system with the authentication plugins - which are able to be used to "just" forward logins.

[Acyd Burn]

A very simple example of embedding would be:

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define('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH', '../phpbb/');
define('PHPBB_DB_NEW_LINK' , true);
define('PHPBB_ADMIN_PATH'  , PHPBB_ROOT_PATH.'adm/');
define('PHPBB_EMBEDDED'    , true);

include(PHPBB_ROOT_PATH . 'index.php');


With this code from your site you embed phpBBs index page.

[Rhodes]

Thanks so far I will experiment with that.