On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 13:05, Cor Bosman cor@xs4all.nl wrote:

Ive been developing some internal plugins that communicate with a REST/json api. Ive written some classes that do the actual work, and i find myself including those in multiple plugins. This seems like it could be done better.

What would be really cool is if one could extend RC by adding not just plugins, but also classes. So you could do:  $rcmail->myclass->myfunction(….). That way, I could add a class once, and use it from multiple plugins. This could be useful for plugin developers as well, as we could see stuff like Zend or other interesting libraries appear in roundcube for plugins to use.

Maybe this is already possible, and if so, could someone explain how?

Without having tested it, this should actually be possible with a plugin defining these classes and other plugins using require_plugin() to include them.

You can for example create a library plugin which simply extends the include path in order to make autoloading find classes in that particular plugin directory:

class corlib extends rcube_plugin { public function init() { $include_path = $this->home . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get('include_path'); set_include_path($include_path); } }

And since PHP allows one to add unknown members to an object, that lib plugin could even instantiate certain objects and attach them to rcmail just as you requested:

class corlib extends rcube_plugin { public function init() { require_once($this->home . '/lib/myclass.php');

$rcmail = rcmail::get_instance();
$rcmail->myclass = new myclass();

} }

And other plugins can access the library stuff by using $this->require_plugin('corlib');

I hope this helps...

~Thomas _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/aba52c80