Cubi module enhancement

The goal of Cubi module is to allow developers to write their own components and plug in to Cubi application. So each module should have its own

• module description information
• database tables and preload data
• menu definition. menu tells users where to access the module functionality
• depend-on modules who need to be installed before this module

Let's see how cubi enhance its module management. The mod.xml is the main description file. It schema has 3 major part:

1. ACL
2. Menu
3. Dependency

Sample mod.xml can be found in cubi/modules/help/mod.xml

Developer can add the module specific sql in

• mod.install.sql and
• mod.uninstall.sql

Cubi provides a command line tool to load module. The command is cubi/install/load_module.php

# php load_module.php module_name

To help prepare fresh cubi installation data, developer can use script at cubi/install/create_cubidb.php

# php create_cubidb.php

This script create a fresh database called "cubi_install". You can dump the database to cubi/install/cubi.sql. This database will be used in installation wizard.