We built our first XenForo add-on and wrote a tutorial about it

[twisted1919]

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We built our first XenForo add-on and wrote a tutorial about it - Building our first XenForo add-on

Hello everyone,

We just went through a migration from XenForo 1.x to 2.1 where we had to port some of our changes as add-ons for the 2.1 version. We thought it would help to write a blog post related to writing a XenForo add-on, mainly because we're not XenForo developers, but it was easy enough to write a add-on.

You can read the article on our blog, we did our best to include screenshots and code examples to make this...

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[TickTackk]

        // don't validate admin area
        if (isset($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) == 'admin.php') {
            return true;
        }

can be

        // don't validate admin area
        if (\XF::app() instanceof \XF\Admin\App)
        {
            return true;
        }

        if (count($licenses) > 0) {
            $error = 'This license is already in use!';
            return false;
        }

can be

        if ($licenses->count())
        {
            $error = 'This license is already in use!';
            return false;
        }

You haven't made use of hints for class extension

$entity->error('Your support has expired, please renew your support pack before posting new content!', null, false);

Use phrase system.

 

[twisted1919]

// don't validate admin area if (\XF::app() instanceof \XF\Admin\App) { return true; }

Thank you, i did not know about this class.

if ($licenses->count()) { $error = 'This license is already in use!'; return false; }

Thanks, makes sense, i see it implements ArrayCollection.

You haven't made use of hints for class extension

i know, this was on purpose for now.

Use phrase system.

Any hits where can i read about this?

Thanks for taking the time to review this

 

[TickTackk]

Any hits where can i read about this?

Not something that is covered in developer documentation (yet).

 

[twisted1919]

Gotcha, i'll revise this later in this case, maybe the docs will be updated.
Meanwhile i have updated the article to include your suggestions, thanks again

 

[Alpha1]

When is your MailWizz for XenForo addon going to be released.?
XenForo needs a mailing solution like this.

 

[twisted1919]

@Alfa1 - Ah, that would be nice, wouldn't it ?
The above post highlights our XF usage for our company needs though, not for MailWizz the application.

Currently there are no plans for bringing MailWizz as a XF add-on, they are both two huge applications which work best on their own.
There's an API for MailWizz which can be used for a bridge in between the two, but again, our hands are full right now, so we can't take this responsibility.

Thanks for the interest though!

 

[Alpha1]

I will look into it for WordPress based websites.

 

[twisted1919]

I will look into it for WordPress based websites.

Sure, there are a lot of wordpress plugins that integrate with MailWizz, i won't name any but a simple google search will give you at least 5 popular ones