Homepage plugins
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What is it?
Homepage plugins should be something easily added to the homepage, and *probably* only there. It would be something like some portal systems call a "block" which would contain some really concise information and a button or a link to get more info.
Advantages
- Being really small and documented, almost anybody who knows a bit of PHP could design a plugin and put it on its homepage
- It would encourage extension writing and new ideas coming into Dokeos
- It could take advantage of a well-designed CSS implementation to be put anywhere on the screen
- There is only one change needed in the config file (a "pluginActivated" array)
- It can standalone in a separate directory in the claroline dir
Drawbacks
None that I can think of...
Code
The coding is pretty straightforward. I have a document here which I haven't published yet but I definetily should put it somewhere.
