An Introduction to Plugins.
Calling a Plugin.
To use a plugins functionality, you need to call it from your template, to tell Hitop to use the extensions.
Calling a plugin is extremely easy - as long as you know the plugin name.
Inside the plugins directory should be a number of files with the extension
'.so'. A quick look in my plugins directory reveals 13, including
notify.so and ecommerce.so (the notification and
e-commerce plugins).
To call a plugin, place the @REQUIRES command in your page. For calling plugins @REQUIRES has a very simple syntax:
<@REQUIRES PLUGIN="name">where name is the file name of the plugin, but without the
'.so' file extension. So for using the e-commerce plugin, we'd
use:
<@REQUIRES
PLUGIN="ecommerce">And with that, you can start using your plugin.
@REQUIRES.
@REQUIRES has some additional functionality like checking for a minimum version of Hitop before using the plugin, and changing the command names. For more details, see Hitop.org's File section.
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