i am trying to make a plugin and i have been folowing the Plugins instructions but every time i do it i dont know what code to change or what to put in the admin links and all of that but i am trying to make the draft post any help on how this all works because i have neva made a plugin b4:(

Admin link is if your plugin requires an admin backend which can be accessed through the Admin area. If it does, inside your plugin folder eg Plugins/pluginname create a folder named Layouts, then add a layout which is the Admin area for the plugin, then state the name of that file in the plugin-info

this is good, as the theme/mod (any addon) is going through some changes right now, to try and help with things like this, in the meantime, you will want something like the following:

then you need to work out where the plugin is to be inserted. For PM-draft, this would be a "save draft" button next to "send".

The tricky part (with mod) is that it needs to modify the action of the form, so that the insetad of "sendpm.php" it uses say "savedraftpm.php"

the above can be done a couple of ways, and I'll let you have a play to find out how, just know there are better and worse ways.

"savedraftpm.php" is basically a modified version of "sendpm.php", so start there. You can just drop the code that INSERT that is for the recipient (To: ) . you will also need a "senddraftpm.php" that is the opposite, it makes the PM "not draft" and "sends" it to the correct recipent.

the eoCMS code base is relatively well layed out, the above mentioned pages are in the "functions" folder, your new ones need to be in your plugin folder, in their "functions" dir

you will need to "hack" the eoCMS to get the plugin to work, by that time the new "info" layouts will be finalized and a system of "patching" standard eoCMS "functions" will need to be implemented (but thats after you get it to work)

Umnfortunately you are "ground breaking here", so apart from confuser, and to a lesser degree, myself and say banancanard, their is little or no help, you basically have to persist until you get it to work..

Well, to start you need to figure out what your plugin is going to do.  From there you can move into building it.  If you do not know php/html/etc that well, I suggest building it standalone without using the cms to start with and then integrating it in (which usually does not take that much time).   That is how I make most of my plugins at least.  Once you get a grasp on the language it is just as easy to implement it into the cms first.  If you need another example other then looking at the navpanel plugin code that comes default with eocms I will post the source to some other smaller plugins ive made for own personal things.

i have copyed the code over and all that but i still dont know what to change in the coding also if it was a draft message it wouldnt need a admin side would it ?

no, you have to think logically about it.
1) where do you "create a pm" (you need to ad a buuton here)
2) where does the code "sendpm", so you can insert the correct "savedraftpm"

so would that meen that i would have to place the send pm in the same folder as the savedraft pm ?

or would it be in diffrent folders like it is now ?

and i dont think it would need a admin side unless the admins had to conferm the saving of the draft so then i wouldnt have to worry about that

edit:
also what i dont get is what do i change on


obv the name and all that but how would i make that in to a save draft along with



because if it doesnt need a admin file then can u just deleat were it says admin

and also it wouldnt need to have a would it ?

ummm, see my first post... (it does not show the use of table info, cos in this case you do not need it, its already part of eoCMS default db setup..)

ahh ok it got me confused because it says that is what i have to do on the plugin help guide thing so if i dont need tables will i only need the

because i dont know if that is the only thing i need or is there more needed to go on it that ?

Thats all you need in there, to get the drafts you need to do as Paul suggested, think about how you are going to do it and what core files to modify

so then would i then need to get the sendpm php thing and then added it to that plugin folder but name make it as a layout using a normal pm message than change it to add another button in so that it allowes it to be saved ?

and would the code be -

No you dont need to have a layout, just modify the sendpm.php function

what to then link that with the plugin and make a new image for it so people can save it and then what would it then need in the coding for it allowed to be saved for another time of acsess

Well you dont need to link it to anything, think about how it can be done. If i was you i would add a new column into pm called draft and then modify the SendPM layout, add a button named save draft, then modify the send pm to set the draft column to 1

hhaa sorry for all about me not knowing it all haha i am sure i will get the hang of it after i made afew so by adding a column i then have to get the saved message to get to the column 1


edit also what is the pm file name?

Layout name is Pm.php, actually instead of modifying sendpm function, add a new function to save draft, name the save draft submit button draft and do a check for $_POST['draft'], if thats posted then do the save draft function

so in the save draft folder i should make a new function or do i add it in to the file containing

inside the folder where that plugin-info file is, create a folder named functions and add the function in there. Remove all the <html> tags from the plugin-info.php

removed the html tags and made the folder but what do i put in the coding to go in the functions folder