Developing a mailman module

[jogr]

As mentioned bevor I am interested in a mailman module for froxlor. So I started to adapt the old syscp mailman module for froxlor (0.9.12).

The base of operations is as followed:

- installing a fresh froxlor version

- downloading the module from the syscp forum (version mailman-0.1.3.tar.gz)

- copying the files to the froxlor folder

 

I have run the following sql command

CREATE TABLE modules_mailman (
 id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
 `type` enum('list','update','new','delete','system','del_archive') NOT NULL default 'list',
 customerid int(11) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
 domainid int(11) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
 listid int(11) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
 list_name tinytext NOT NULL,
 list_webhost tinytext NOT NULL,
 list_owner tinytext NOT NULL,
 list_mailhost tinytext NOT NULL,
 transport tinytext NOT NULL,
 list_password tinytext NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY  (id)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

 

to guarantee that the database is up to date (no missing tables).

 

 

I have created a file 99.mailman.php in lib/navigation

<?php
return array (
   	'admin' => array (
           	'mailman' => array (
                   	'label' => $lng['admin']['mailman'],
                   	'show_element' => true,
                   	'elements' => array (
                           	array (
                                   	'url' => 'modules_admin_mailman.php?page=lists',
                                   	'label' => $lng['menue']['mailinglists']['mailinglists'],
                           	),
                   	),
           	),
   	),
);
?>

 

After that I added the content of lng/modules/mailman/german.lng.php to lng/german.lng.php

 

Doing so I got my entry in main navigation and a link to the old admin mailinglist menu.

 

I've tryed to use that link, but I got a "blank" page, which means that there are no system and froxlor mailinglists (which is correct, there are none defined on my system yet) but I am not able to adept the pathes for mailman. phpmyadmin shows, that there were mailman entrys in panel_settings, but it seems but they are not displayed. Can you give me a hint which file / entrys I have to change?

[d00p]

blank page means there are php-errors on that page, check your Webserver errorlog

[jogr]

The page isn't blank in terms of a white page, but the page doesn't contain any predefined entry.

I hope, the following picture helps illustrating

[d00p]

well, as this is an external module, i don't know its code, maybe it returns an empty resultset from the database, or does not output its content correctly

[jogr]

I might have found the point why the output is not set.

The template uses something like

<tr>
 <td class="main_field_name">{$lng['module']['mailman']['admin']['rmlist_path']}</td>
 <td class="main_field_display" nowrap="nowrap"><input type="text" name="system_rmlist_path" value="{$settings['mailman']['system_rmlist_path']}" /></td>
</tr>

and I cannot found, where

$settings['mailman']['system_rmlist_path']

is set.

 

As froxlor uses something like

<if ($userinfo['tickets_used'] < $userinfo['tickets'] || $userinfo['tickets'] == '-1') && ($ticketsopen < $settings['ticket']['concurrently_open'] || ($settings['ticket']['concurrently_open'] == '-1' || $settings['ticket']['concurrently_open'] == '')) >

in tickets.tpl can you explain, where

$settings['ticket']['concurrently_open']

is set, so I perhaps get a hint, in which datas I have to search to adapt the mailman module?

[d00p]

all stuff in $settings can be found in the database-table panel_settings, where the first index of the array (e.g. ticket) is the groupname and the second (e.g. concurrently_open) is the varname

[jogr]

Ok, thanks.

If I understand you right, if I have a following entry in panel_settings

• settinggroup: mailman
• varname: system_rmlist_path
• value: /usr/sbin/rmlist

the value will be accessable by

{$settings['mailman']['system_rmlist_path']}