Hi all,
This past week I've been working on a few updates and a little cleanup
of the Chamilo 2.0 portal homepage. For the most part these changes
don't break anything, but to bring everything up to the same standards
and to allow for the implementation of new functionaity due to recent
platform-wide changes, a few "tweaks" were necessary.
1. A storage unit containing all possible widgets was added, named
"home_block_registration". It contains a list of blocks available
for the homepage with their respective context (= namespace of the
package). This (in addition to previously made architectureal
changes) makes it possible to have blocks for every single package
on the system and most notably individual content objects. This
should help reduce the number of cyclic dependencies. For those
blocks like "streaming" that allow you to use multiple types of
objects I would propose individual blocks per object type.
2. The /home_block/ storage unit no longer contains a reference to a
/context /and /component /but instead now refers to a
registration_id. The get_context method is still available and
retrieves (and caches) the registration object when needed.
/get_component/ was replaced by /get_block/ and marked as
deprecated. It will continue to work as expected for now though.
People using a PHP IDE will more then likely be notified about the
deprecation status whenever they try to call the method.
3. Taking (2) into account, a few storage changes were required in
the /home_block/ storage unit/. context /and /block /were removed
and replaced by /registration_id/. This implies a reinstall or
manual update of this table is required. At the same time
/home_block_registration/ needs to be created and populated.
4. ddddd
Following the move from application to context-based blocks it seemed
somewhat natural to apply the same to settings, which were also still
(more or less) limited to applications. The implications:
1. In the /admin_setting/ storage unit, /application /was replaced by
/context/. Existing content remains unchanged.
2. /get_application/ and /set_application/ have been marked
deprecated and were replaced by get_context and set_context. As
with the changes in the home_block, an intelligent PHP IDE should
alert you when you encounter calls to these deprecated methods.
Please replace them with the new methods when you encounter such
calls.
3. Practically speaking all packages can now have settings. A visual
interface to allow configuration of more then just the application
settings still needs to be implemented.
Best regards,
Hans
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