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add on system codeigniter 4 - devo - 07-20-2022
how can i make add-on / plugins system in codeigniter 4 can someone please give me a reference?
RE: add on system codeigniter 4 - captain-sensible - 07-20-2022
well lets take your terminology of plugin , something i might have heard concerning WordPress to mean "how can I extend functionality"?
So lets say you want to include the functionality of a spam checker ; it will check input from a form to see if the user of the form is a spammer. I can only give you mu approach. So the way i went about it is to write a php class; but it won't be a controller.
So to make it easy to be found I create a directory called "Andy" inside the codeigniter4 "app" directory.
Inside the class at the start i write :
Code:
<?php namespace App\Andy;
class CheckSpam
{inside my class "CheckSpam" keeping it simple i declare an array of usual suspect spam key words eg containing 'free consultation','Toenail Clippers',
to use my class its just a case of getting an instance of it and passing data to one of its methods . basically text from a submitted form will be run through , using each key word in my array. Sounds slow and tedious but works a treat. Anybody that wants to test it live let me know
So its just like a plugin for say wordpress , but i have gone about it using a class.
With a class you can just about do anything ; also a class have have several methods which each do something different