Support for 3rd party Plugins

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 129

Hey

It would be great if users can add there own functions to phpLiteAdmin. This will allow
developer to improve the program without infecting it.

Reported by teryaki1963 on 2012-11-03 07:39:20

[Christopher Kramer]

Good idea. To plan this well, it would be helpful to first think about what the functionality
of such plugins could be. I guess we'd need to define several types of plugins, or
a plugin could perform several types of actions. So we need to think about what these
types of actions could be.

Reported by crazy4chrissi on 2012-11-03 15:28:59 - Labels added: Type-Enhancement - Labels removed: Type-Review

[Former user]

Hey crazy :)

I really like the way how wordpress implements the plugins. I didn’t know how they
do that but i succeed to make my own way for havalite CMS http://www.havalite.com .

-- To plan this well, it would be helpful to first think about what the functionality
of such plugins could be --

There are plenty of needed functions, i mention some of them here:

[The_begin]
• Import from MySql
• ****** Oracle
• ****** XML, html
• etc…
• Export to ***** etc..
• Search / Replace (with RegEx support, ignore white space, html tags ... )
• Save own SQL statements (maybe as templates for further changes)
• Configurations or options
• Any mathematical or scientifical functions
• Create public site/gallery.. from table

[The_head]
• Any JS, jQuery, CSS …

[The_content]
• Reduce columns (view only title, text columns)
• Edit in place (ajax)
• View Blob as image or swf etc.
• View as html 
• **** as  Charts, colored code editor etc.

[The_sidebar]
• Quick Navigation
• A list <select> with names of all saved statments
• Favorite links

[The_footer]
• Any results need to be shown
• Additional buttons

I noticed by Havalite that i mostly use the first 4 braches begin/head/content/sidebar
when developing plugins. The most difficult part is the content, but if the code is
well organized than it’s no problem.

Reported by teryaki1963 on 2012-11-03 20:45:31

[Dane Iracleous]

I also like how Wordpress built their plugin system. They use hooks. We just need to
find all the places physically as well as functionally where people would want to "extend"
behavior. The list above is good. I'm going to work on a new Plugin class. It will
allow us to strategically place our hooks throughout the code. 

Reported by diracleo on 2014-05-07 11:10:14

[dreadnaut]

I have some code ready for this, see Issue 214.

Reported by dreadnaut on 2014-05-11 16:16:28