By richardhall on

Does anyone know if any modules use a plug-in infrastructure whereby a module can have several optional units of functionality - for example support for different import filters, graphic formats, compression algorithms etc, where in order to add a plug-in no changes have to be made to the module itself except to add some extra files into that modules folder? Rather than just go ahead and develop a way of doing this I wondered if this kind of system already exists, and if so what module I should look at for example code..

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adrian commented

it loads things based on file formats.

but thereis no system inherent in drupal, and i'm not sure one is needed. (although i do see the need for generic 'library' modules that don't ever get mentioned in the interface)

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richardhall’s picture

richardhall commented

The modules I'm adding are complex enough that they really do need a plugin system. If nobody can tell me of one that exists already in Drupal I guess I'm going to invent this wheel for the first Drupal time...

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eaton commented

Flexinode uses a set of include files to implement new field types. Perhaps you could start by looking there for some examples?

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