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Nique

I have an CMS package in which all basic CMS stuff is coded. But things get really big and i would like to separate some of the basic CMS controllers, models and views into modules. This might sound weird but i want to keep the application for what it is: extending the CMS i build. This way i only have to create a new 'app'. The modules i create in the app are for 'that' specific client only. The modules i create in the CMS package i use over and over again. My directory structure is like this (lib = just packages)

/app/{all client code build on the cms}
/lib/system/{fuel core}
/lib/orm/{orm code}
/lib/cms/{my cms code build on fuel + other packages}
/public/{assets and index.php}

So is it possible to have modules inside a package?

WanWizard

Official answer: No, you can't have modules in a package. Unofficial answer: FuelPHP supports multiple module folders, so nobody's stopping you from adding a modules folder to your package, and in the package bootstrap add the folder to the config module paths.

Nique

Harro Verton wrote on Tuesday 11th of September 2012:

Official answer: No, you can't have modules in a package. Unofficial answer: FuelPHP supports multiple module folders, so nobody's stopping you from adding a modules folder to your package, and in the package bootstrap add the folder to the config module paths.

So when i add a config.php in my CMS package and fill this in:

<?php return array(
 'module_paths' => array(
     PKGPATH.'CMS'.DS.'modules'.DS,  // path to cms modules
 ),
 'always_load' => array(
  'modules' => array(
   'news',
  ),
 ),
);

Should this work? You talk about adding to bootstrap but i don't know what i have to do there. It seems that the packagename/config/config.php file is not being included automaticly. Am i forced to set the module_path inside

app/config/config.php

file? Thanks

WanWizard

Yes, that would work, but obviously creates a dependency between app and your package, which sort of makes it pointless to put them in a package in the first place. If this dependency exists simply create app/cms and put them there. If you want them in a package so they are portable, don't add it to app/config/config.php, but do this in the package bootstrap:

$paths = \Config::get( 'module_paths', array() );
$paths[] = __DIR__.DS.'classes'.DS.'modules'.DS;
\Config::set('module_paths', $paths);

Nique

Ok, Thanks!

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