Tutorials and reference material for creating new OpenACS packages.
Table of Contents
- 9. Development Tutorial
- 10. Advanced Topics
- Write the Requirements and Design Specs
- Add the new package to CVS
- OpenACS Edit This Page Templates
- Adding Comments
- Admin Pages
- Categories
- Profile your code
- Prepare the package for distribution.
- Distributing upgrades of your package
- Notifications
- Hierarchical data
- Using .vuh files for pretty URLs
- Laying out a page with CSS instead of tables
- Sending HTML email from your application
- Basic Caching
- Scheduled Procedures
- Enabling WYSIWYG
- Adding in parameters for your package
- Writing upgrade scripts
- Connect to a second database
- Future Topics
- 11. Development Reference
- OpenACS Packages
- OpenACS Data Models and the Object System
- The Request Processor
- The OpenACS Database Access API
- Using Templates in OpenACS
- Groups, Context, Permissions
- Writing OpenACS Application Pages
- Parties in OpenACS
- OpenACS Permissions Tediously Explained
- Object Identity
- Programming with AOLserver
- Using Form Builder: building html forms dynamically
- 12. Engineering Standards
- 13. Documentation Standards
- 14. Internationalization
- D. Using CVS with an OpenACS Site