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Group-Office modules can interact with eachother with event handling. For example you might want to do something in a custom module when a particular thing happens in another module.
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Some practical examples:
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# The IMAP authentication module checks access when a user logs in.
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# When an order status changes in the webshop of group-office.com, an event handler enables the download for the customer
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# When a password is change in Group-Office. A system account can be updated.
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# etc.
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How does it work? I'll explain the IMAP authentication example.
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When a user logs in, an event is fired in classes/base/auth.class.inc.php:
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<pre>
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$GO_EVENTS->fire_event('before_login', array($username, $password));
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</pre>
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The event 'before_login' is fired and event listeners functions are called with the parameters $username and $password
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==Adding event listeners in a simple way==
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The simplest way to add an event listener is to add a "local_listeners.php" file in the same directory as the config.php file is. This will only work in 3.7.9 and higher. Here's an example file:
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<?php
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/**
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* This file can be put in the same directory as your config.php file is located.
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* You can add your own listeners to do some actions at particular events.
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*/
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//Register the listener. This will be fired when a user is added
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if(isset($events)){
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$events->add_listener('add_user', __FILE__, '', 'local_add_user_listener');
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}
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//The function to be called. This example adds a user to the user group
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//domain.com. Where domain.com is the domain part of the user's e-mail address.
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function local_add_user_listener($user, $password){
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global $GO_CONFIG, $GO_SECURITY;
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//load the group management class
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require_once($GO_CONFIG->class_path.'base/groups.class.inc.php');
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$GO_GROUPS = new GO_GROUPS();
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$arr = explode('@', $user['email']);
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$domain = $arr[1];
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//get the group.
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$group = $GO_GROUPS->get_group_by_name($domain);
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if(!$group){
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//group doesn't exist so create it.
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$group_id = $GO_GROUPS->add_group(1, $domain, 0, $GO_SECURITY->get_new_acl('groups'));
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}else
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{
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$group_id = $group['id'];
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}
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//add the user to the group
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$GO_GROUPS->add_user_to_group($user['id'], $group_id);
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//load the security management class
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        require_once($GO_CONFIG->class_path.'base/security.class.inc.php');
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        $GO_SECURITY = new GO_SECURITY();
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        //add user is visible to group
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        $GO_SECURITY->add_group_to_acl($group_id, $user['acl_id']);
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}
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You need to '''install your module''' in Group-Office. When a user logged in and out these functions are called.
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You could use this to create authentication bridges for any application/protocol like Joomla, PhpBB, LDAP etc. You'll just have to write it!
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==Defined events==
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{|cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1"
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! Module
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! Event name
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! Parameters
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! Description
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|-
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| Framework
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| before_login
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| username, password
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| Fires just before a user logins. Useful for authentication bridges.
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|-
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| Framework
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| login
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| username, password, user (array with all db fields)
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| Fires when a user logs in successfully
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|-
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| Framework
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| logout
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| session The old $_SESSION['GO_SESSION'] var that was destroyed
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| Fires when a user logs out
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|-
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| Framework
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| update_user
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| user: array with all db fields
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| Fires when a user is updated.
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|-
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| Framework
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| before_add_user
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| user: array with all db fields
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| Fires just before a user is added.
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|-
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| Framework
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| add_user
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| user: array with all db fields
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| Fires after a user is added.
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|-
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| Framework
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| user_delete
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| user: array with all db fields
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| Fires after a user is deleted.
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|-
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| Framework
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| install_module
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| module: array with module db fields
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| Fires when a module is installed. Eg. You could enable extra functionality in another module when a module is installed
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|-
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| Framework
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| save_settings
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| None, but you can use the $_POST array.
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| Fires when a the user settings are updated. Each module can add it's own panels to the settings dialog. Through this event you can update the module settings.
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|-
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| Framework
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| load_settings
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| response: The JSON response to the client. Useful for adding settings to the array.
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| Fires when a the user settings are loaded. Each module can add it's own panels to the settings dialog. Through this event you can update the module settings.
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|-
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| Framework
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| reminder_dismissed
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| reminder: array with reminder db fields
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| Fires when a reminder is dismised. Eg. When a reminder of a recurring event is dismissed, a new reminder is created for the next occurrence.
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|-
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| Framework
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| require_language_file
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| module_id: name of the module, $language: the language code requested
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| Fires when a language file is required. Useful for overridding some language vars with another module. This one was added at 22-09-2009 in version 3.3 and a lot of older files don't use the require_language_file function yet.
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|-
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| Tools
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| check_database
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| none
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| Perform a database check on your module.
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|-
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| Billing
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| order_status_change
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| order, new_status, old_status
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| Fires when an order changes to another status
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|}
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Revision as of 14:22, 6 July 2012

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