Now we can use smarty template when creating chamilo plugins

main/admin/settings.lib.php

@@ -62,13 +62,12 @@ function handle_plugins() {
     echo '</th>';
     echo '</tr>';
     
-    //$usedplugins = $plugin_obj->get_installed_plugins();  
-    $usedplugins = $plugin_obj->get_installed_plugins();  
+    $usedplugins = $plugin_obj->get_installed_plugins_by_block();  
 
     /* We display all the possible plugins and the checkboxes */
     
     $plugin_list = array();
-    $my_plugin_list = $plugin_obj->get_plugin_list();
+    $my_plugin_list = $plugin_obj->get_plugin_blocks();
     foreach($my_plugin_list as $plugin_item) {
         $plugin_list[$plugin_item] = $plugin_item;
     }

main/inc/lib/main_api.lib.php

@@ -3378,6 +3378,7 @@ function api_number_of_plugins($location) {
 /**
  * Including the necessary plugins.
  * @author Patrick Cool <patrick.cool@UGent.be>, Ghent University
+ * @deprecated use AppPlugin::get_all_plugin_contents_by_block function
  */
 function api_plugin($location) {
     global $_plugins;

main/inc/lib/plugin.lib.php

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 /* See license terms in /license.txt */
 class AppPlugin {
-    var $plugin_list = array ( 
+    var $plugin_blocks = array ( 
  //           'loginpage_main',
             'login',
             'menu', 
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ class AppPlugin {
         return $possible_plugins;
     }
     
-    function get_installed_plugins() {
+    
+    function get_installed_plugins_by_block(){
         $usedplugins = array();
         /* We retrieve all the active plugins. */    
         $result = api_get_settings('Plugins');    
@@ -60,6 +61,18 @@ class AppPlugin {
         return $usedplugins;
     }
     
+    function get_installed_plugins() {
+        $installed_plugins = array();
+        $result = api_get_settings('Plugins'); 
+        if (!empty($result)) {
+            foreach ($result as $row) {
+                $installed_plugins[$row['selected_value']] = true;
+            }
+            $installed_plugins = array_keys($installed_plugins);
+        }
+        return $installed_plugins;
+    }
+    
     function get_areas_by_plugin($plugin_name) {
         $result = api_get_settings('Plugins');        
         $areas = array();
@@ -84,8 +97,79 @@ class AppPlugin {
         return false;
     }
     
-    function get_plugin_list() {
-        sort($this->plugin_list);
-        return $this->plugin_list;
+    function get_plugin_blocks() {
+        sort($this->plugin_blocks);
+        return $this->plugin_blocks;
+    }
+    
+    function load_block($block, $main_template) {
+        ob_start();		
+        $this->get_all_plugin_contents_by_block($block, $main_template);		
+        $block_content = ob_get_contents();
+        ob_end_clean();
+        return $block_content;
+    }
+    
+    function get_all_plugin_contents_by_block($block, $main_template) {
+        global $_plugins;
+        if (isset($_plugins[$block]) && is_array($_plugins[$block])) {
+            foreach ($_plugins[$block] as $plugin_name) {
+                //Load the plugin information
+                //
+                //The plugin_info variable is available inside the plugin index
+                $plugin_info = $this->get_plugin_info($plugin_name);
+                //We also where the plugin is
+                $plugin_info['current_block'] = $block;                
+                
+                // Loading the plugin/XXX/index.php file                
+                include api_get_path(SYS_PLUGIN_PATH)."$plugin_name/index.php";
+                
+                //Loading the smarty template files if exists
+                $template_list = array();
+                if (isset($plugin_info) && isset($plugin_info['templates'])) {
+                    $template_list =  $plugin_info['templates'];
+                }
+                
+                //We set the $template variable in order to use smarty
+                if (isset($_template) && !empty($_template)) {                    
+                    foreach($_template as $key =>$value) {
+                        $main_template->assign($key, $value);  
+                    }                    
+                }
+                if (!empty($template_list)) {
+                    foreach($template_list as $plugin_tpl) {
+                        if (!empty($plugin_tpl)) {
+                            $template_plugin_file = api_get_path(SYS_PLUGIN_PATH)."$plugin_name/$plugin_tpl";
+                            $main_template->display($template_plugin_file);                                                
+                        }
+                    }                
+                }               
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+    
+    function get_plugin_info($plugin_name) {
+        static $plugin_data = array();
+        if (isset($plugin_data[$plugin_name])) {
+            return $plugin_data[$plugin_name]; 
+        } else {
+            $plugin_file = api_get_path(SYS_PLUGIN_PATH)."$plugin_name/plugin.php";
+            $plugin_info = array();
+            if (file_exists($plugin_file)) {
+                require $plugin_file;            
+            }
+            $plugin_data[$plugin_name] = $plugin_info;
+            return $plugin_data;
+        }
+    }
+    
+    function get_templates_list($plugin_name) {
+        $plugin_info = $this->get_plugin_info($plugin_name);        
+        if (isset($plugin_info) && isset($plugin_info['templates'])) {
+            return $plugin_info['templates'];
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
     }
 }

main/inc/lib/template.lib.php

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ class Template extends Smarty {
 	var $show_footer;
     var $help;
     var $menu_navigation = array();
-    var $show_learnpath = false;
+    var $show_learnpath = false;    
+    var $plugin = null;
 	
 	function __construct($title = '', $show_header = true, $show_footer = true, $show_learnpath = false) {
         parent::__construct();
@@ -72,10 +73,14 @@ class Template extends Smarty {
 		$this->assign('style', $this->style);
         
         //Chamilo plugins
-        $plugin = new AppPlugin();
-        foreach($plugin->plugin_list as $plugin) {
-            $this->set_plugin($plugin);
+        $this->plugin = new AppPlugin();
+        $plugin_blocks = $this->plugin->get_plugin_blocks();
+        foreach ($plugin_blocks as $block) {
+            $this->set_plugin_block($block);
         }
+        
+        $this->load_plugin_template();       
+       
 	}
     
     function set_help($help_input = null) {        
@@ -550,17 +555,17 @@ class Template extends Smarty {
     }
     
     /* Sets the plugin content in a Smarty variable */
-    function set_plugin($plugin_name) {
-        if (!empty($plugin_name)) {
-            if (api_number_of_plugins($plugin_name) > 0) {
-                ob_start();		
-                api_plugin($plugin_name);		
-                $plugin_content = ob_get_contents();
-                ob_end_clean();
-            }
-            $this->assign('plugin_'.$plugin_name, $plugin_content);
-            //return $plugin_content;
+    function set_plugin_block($plugin_block) {
+        if (!empty($plugin_block)) {          
+            $block_content = $this->plugin->load_block($plugin_block, $this);   
+            //Assigning the plugin with the smarty template
+            $this->assign('plugin_'.$plugin_block, $block_content);            
         }
         return null;
     }
+    
+    function load_plugin_template() {
+     
+        
+    }
 }