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The Web Hosting component seminar
From Elxis Official Documentation
On July 16 and July 23, 2010 Ioannis Sannos presented 2 free online seminars on how we build a component for Elxis CMS following an MVC-like (Model View Controller) approach. You will find a short presentation and the component's files at the Webinars section at elxis.org. The seminar was performed in Greek language.
Things we discussed during the seminar:
- Build components file system
- Install manually the component and create its database tables
- An MVC-like PHP architecture with model and controller combined.
- Create the elxis toolbar for the component
- How to build a multilingual application
- Component's configuration
- Build of a sample controller/view pair for handling web hosting packages.
- How to create tooltips, tabs, yes/no radio boxes, drop down select boxes.
- How to load Elxis WYSIWYG editor.
- Create the component's XML file
- Create the installation file.
- Create the file that is being used during component's uninstall.
- Build the XML schema file.
- Handling SEO PRO extension during install.
- Create the final installation package that it is ready to be install via the Elxis components installer.
